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Survivor Story: Ora Ninio
As a young child forced to hide from the Nazis in France, Ora Ninio of Jerusalem – then a little girl called Clair-Clara Ridnik – was told to keep quiet. Now, 70 years later, Ora still does not speak very much, even when she is with friends. But, Ora says, the bright spot in her […]
Assia Jassioukevitch, Berlin
Assia Jassioukevitch was just 14 when the Nazis arrived at her Ukrainian village. She survived a mass execution of the village’s Jews, only to be captured and deported to a ghetto. Now 88 and in poor health, Assia lives in Berlin and receives a monthly pension from the Claims Conference, which helps her manage day-to-day. […]
Agnes Ruben, Denmark
Agnes Ruben was a young girl of 12 in late 1943, living in Copenhagen, when the Nazis made plans to round up and deport the country’s 7,800 Jews. Agnes’s countrymen saved the girl and her family by ferrying them to Sweden, where they spent the rest of the war years in safety, and then were […]
Ludwik Brylant
As a child of 8, Ludwik Brylant escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto and survived the Shoah in hiding. Now 81 years old and living in Lublin, Ludwik receives services from Poland’s Central Jewish Welfare Commission through funding from the Claims Conference. Ludwik’s childhood was marked by World War II. On his first day of first […]
Katarzyna Meloch-Jackl
Katarzyna Meloch-Jackl of Warsaw says she has to live until 90 because she has so much to write about Jewish history and the Shoah. The homecare help she receives from Poland’s Central Jewish Welfare Commission, through funding from the Claims Conference, enables her to have strength to write and record testimonies from survivors like herself. […]
