Survivor Stories

First-hand testimonies, preserved in their own words.

Each story below was shared with us by a Holocaust survivor or their family. Read them, sit with them, share them, so the next generation will remember.

Viktor Blekh survivor portrait

Viktor Blekh, born 1941

A Hard Road to Survival

Viktor Blekh remembers being born in a half-destroyed Urals barrack, growing up hungry, and the disabled German POW who handed him his first piece of candy.

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