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The people on this list are or were survivors of Nazi Germany's attempt to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe before and during World War II. A state-enforced persecution of Jewish people in Nazi-controlled Europe lasted from the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 to Hitler 's defeat in 1945.
The first "Register of Jewish Survivors" (Pinkas HaNitzolim I) was published by the Jewish Agency's Search Bureau for Missing Relatives in 1945, containing over 61,000 names compiled from 166 different lists of Jewish survivors in various European countries.
Curt Lowens (17 November 1925 – 8 May 2017), German-Jewish actor and resistant, survived. Arnošt Lustig (21 December 1926 – 26 February 2011), Czechoslovak and later Czech Jewish writer and novelist, the Holocaust is his lifelong theme, survived. Branko Lustig (10 June 1932 – 14 November 2019), Croatian-American film producer. [77]
The people listed below are, or were, the last surviving members of notable groups of World War II veterans, as identified by reliable sources. About 70 million people fought in World War II between 1939 and 1945. Background shading indicates the individual is still living Last survivors Veteran Birth Death Notability Service Allegiance Aimé Acton 1917 or 1918 13 December 2020 (aged 102) Last ...
The study defined Jewish Holocaust survivors as any Jew who is verified as being persecuted as a Jew in Germany, Austria or any other country occupied by the Nazis or their Axis allies during 1933 ...
The Names Book is a large commemorative book listing the names and brief details about some 4,800,000 Jewish victims of the Holocaust known to Yad Vashem and documented through the Names Recovery Project, out of the total 6 million victims. The book has been published in two editions, in 2004 and a decade later.
City survived, but all Jews were exterminated. Tryškiai: טרישיק Trishik Town survived. Ukmergė: װילקאָמיר Vilkomir City survived, but many Jews were exterminated. Utena: אוטיאן Utyan City survived. Užpaliai: אװשפּאָל Avshpol 691 (1897) Town survived, but all Jews were exterminated. Varėna: אָראן Oran
Of the 235,000 Jewish immigrants to Palestine from 1932 to 1939, [3] approximately 60,000 were German Jews. [4] During World War II, millions of Jews were forced to evacuate areas occupied by the German army and its allies, and most of those who remained were forcibly moved to ghettos and then either killed on the spot or deported to ...