Holocaust
- Famous Holocaust Survivors
There are many famous
Holocaust survivors who survived the Nazi genocides in Europe only to go
on to achievements of great fame and notability. Those listed here are,
at the very least, residents of the parts of Europe occupied by the Axis
powers during World War II targeted by the Holocaust who survived until
the end of the Holocaust and the war. The majority of these people
survived incarceration in the Nazi concentration camps, but this is not
strictly necessary for the purposes of this list.
* Karel Ančerl, Czech conductor
* Aharon Appelfeld, novelist and poet
* Hannah Arendt, philosopher and cpolitologist
* Leo Baeck, a leader of progressive judaism
* Władysław Bartoszewski, politician and journalist
* Joseph Bau, graphic artist and poet
* Bruno Bettelheim, writer and psychologist
* Leon Blum, French socialist leader and Prime Minister (his brother,
Rene, was killed)
* Tadeusz Borowski, Polish author
* George Brady(Jiří Brady), elder brother of Hana"Hanička" Bradová
* Józef Cyrankiewicz, later a Polish communist political figure,
premier, and Head of State
* Yehiel De-Nur, German Jewish writer
* Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, publisher of her diary
* Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist
* Fanya Heller, author of Love in a World of Sorrow
* Arek Hersh, Polish writer, author of A Mesage from History
* Charles Higounet
* Johan Huizinga
* Imre Kertész, Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian author
* Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
* Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Polish writer and resistance fighter
* Adam Cardinal Kozłowiecki, Polish cardinal
* Tom Lantos, hungarian-born american democrat
* Yisrael Meir Lau, an orthodox rabbi
* Primo Levi
* Paul Löbe (1875-1967), politician
* Robert Maxwell
* Witold Pilecki
* Paul Ricoeur
* Leon Schiller de Schildenfeld
* Kurt Schumacher
* Ota Šik
* Władysław Szpilman
* Władysław Ślebodziński
* Władysław Tatarkiewicz
* Elie Wiesel, author (particularly of Night) and political activist
* Simon Wiesenthal, worked to capture Nazi war criminals and founded the
Simon Wiesenthal Center
Parents or ancestor were Holocaust survivors
* Peter Frankl
* Daniel Libeskind
* György Ligeti
* Geddy Lee, born Gary Lee Weinrib, lead vocalist and bassist of Rush.
Parents were Morris Weinrib and Manya (Mary) Rubenstein, released from
Dachau and Bergen-Belsen respectively when those camps were liberated by
Allied troops.
* Natalie Portman
* Art Spiegelman, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel
series Maus about his parents' Holocaust experience.
* Viktor Yushchenko
From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famous_Holocaust_survivors
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