A Furtive Thing
When you are five and a half years old, at what point do you start crying because you haven’t seen your mother?
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Read reflections and testimonies written by Holocaust survivors in their own words.
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The Price I Paid for Survival
Our feelings are always there—waiting, attuned, alert, and yearning for attachment. So we were created. Such is the path of our lives.
A Monument, a Museum, a Sculpture
There is no other monumental structure more powerful than the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The Yellow Badge
My grandmother had a box filled with buttons, threads, and pieces of fabric.
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Survivor Reflections and Testimonies
Listen to or read Holocaust survivors’ experiences, told in their own words through oral histories, written testimony, and public programs.