Holocaust Museum & Cohen Education Center
Survivor Testimonies
Dora Priever
Date of Birth: May 12, 1903 Dora Priever resided with her husband Schama, and their two children in Paris, France. As a busy homemaker, Dora worked hard to create a wonderful home life for her […]
Read MoreChrisopher Ballaban
Christopher Marian Ballaban was born in Boryslaw, Poland. Born Marian, he took the name Christopher upon his baptism at the age of 16. Chris grew up in a loving family. His father was very patriotic, […]
Read MoreCesare Frustaci
Cesare was born in Napoli, Italy. His Jewish mother, Margit, was a Hungarian ballerina and his Roman Catholic father, Pasquale, was a famous orchestra director and music composer. They baptized Cesare and brought him up […]
Read MoreCarla Benninga
Carla Meijer Benninga was born in 1928 in The Hague. Her family stayed there until they, like the rest of the Jewish Dutch, were forced to relocate to Amsterdam. Upon the beginning of the war […]
Read MoreBenno Benninga
Benjamin “Benno” Benninga was born in the Leeuwardern, Holland. Prior to the war the family was very well off due to Mr. Benninga’s shortening company. In 1940, they moved to Bussum and then Amsterdam two […]
Read MoreBeatrix Margolis
Beatrix was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921. Her family belonged to a reform temple and she attended Sunday school. When she began high school, anti-Semitism was growing. Her father was arrested in either 1937 […]
Read MoreAnnemarie Pinto
Annemarie was born in 1922 in Berlin, Germany. She was a “mischling,” the child of a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. Her father was a successful corporate attorney who worked for the German steel […]
Read MoreAnneliesse Yosafat
Anneliesse was born in 1937 in Leipzig, Germany. She was five when she and her parents went into hiding and eight at the end of the war. In Liepzig they hid, always together, in thirteen […]
Read MoreAnneliese Salamon
Before the war, Anneliese had a comfortable childhood in a small town in Czechoslovakia. In 1940, Anneliese and her family were relocated to a Jewish ghetto. In 1941, the Gestapo took Anneliese’s parents. She never […]
Read MoreAnne Zvibelman
Anne Zvibelman was born Hannah Taffet in 1937 in the small town of Zbaraz in Poland. She was raised in a Jewish family. Before the war, she lived a comfortable life but Anne did not […]
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