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HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR STORIES
Go to https://hcn.org.uk/stories/survivor-stories/
Read each person’s story and answer the questions.
IBY KNILL
1. Name a way Iby’s life was changed after Nazi occupation.
2.
Iby fled to which country to escape Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia?
3.
Why did Iby’s aunt Bella in Budapest refuse to help her?
4.
Iby spent six weeks in which Nazi camp?
5.
How did Iby’s friends help her on the death march towards Bergen-Belsen?
6.
Name two jobs Iby had after World War II.
7.
How old was Iby when she passed away in 2022?
2.
How was Arek able to survive in the work camp called Otoczno?
3.
What happened to Arek’s remaining family members who were in the Lodz
ghetto?
4.
Why did the Germans evacuate Arek and other remaining soldiers at
Auschwitz on January 18, 1945?
5.
Where was Arek taken after his camp was liberated by the Russian army?
6.
What profession did Arek learn after World War II?
7.
How many people from Arek’s hometown survived the Holocaust?
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AREK HERSH
1. In which country was Arek born in 1928?
BERTA KLIPSTEIN
1. What instrument did Berta enjoy playing as a child?
2.
Name one way Berta remembers life changing in her hometown
as Nazi support grew.
3.
How old was Berta when her family decided to flee Poland after
Nazi invasion?
4. Why were Berta and her family freed in 1941?
5. Describe Berta’s life after moving to England
6. Why did Berta emigrate to Israel in 2014?
IBI GINSBURG
1. Ibi’s family was told to prepare for a three-day journey to
Germany for work, but where were they really taken?
2.
What did Ibi later learn had happened to her mother and youngest sisters?
3.
Why were Ibi and others forced on a death march?
4.
How did Ibi meet her future husband, Val?
5.
Val and Ibi moved to which country in 1948 and later became citizens?
6.
Why did Val and Ibi decide to visit schools to describe their experiences?
2.
Trude and her siblings all escaped to which country before the war?
3.
What happened to Trude’s parents during the war?
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TRUDE SILMAN
1. What memory of Hitler did Trude have as a child?
RUDI LEAVOR
1. Rudi was born in which country in 1926?
2.
What was Rudi’s main memory of the Nazis before 1936?
3.
Rudi and his family moved to which country after his parents
were arrested?
4.
What was Rudi’s occupation after finishing school?
5.
How did Rudi work to combat misunderstanding and hatred after the war?
2.
Describe the conditions that Eugene and his family experienced
while being transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
3.
Name and describe one of the jobs Eugene was forced to do while in Nazi
camps.
4.
What did Eugene learn about his family after being liberated by the British
Army?
5.
Describe Eugene’s life after the war.
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EUGENE BLACK
1. How did Eugene’s life change after German occupation?