What's A Survivor

220,800 Holocaust Survivors are still alive as of January 2026.

Most of the Holocaust Survivors live in either Israel (50%) or the United States (16%) and 1/3 of them live below the Poverty Line.

In 1945 there were 3.5 Million Holocaust Survivors.

A Holocaust Survivor is any Jewish Person who was even 1 minute old from when the Nazis formed Germany’s Government on January 30, 1933 until the Nazis were defeated on May 8, 1945 and lived in Nazi Germany or in Nazi-Occupied Europe and North Africa:

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the British Channel Islands (Jersey, Guernsey, Helm and Sark), Czechoslovakia (the Czech Republic and Slovakia), Denmark, Estonia, France, French North Africa (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia),  Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Monaco, Norway, The Netherlands, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union (Belorussia, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine), Yugoslavia (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia.)

A Holocaust Survivor could have been: Hidden, Forced to Flee as a Refugee, Fought with the Partisans, Fought with the Resistance, been in a Ghetto, done Forced Labor, been in a Prison, been in a Concentration Camp, been in a Labor Camp, been in a Death Camp, etc.

A Holocaust Survivor watched their Friends and Family shot over open pits, pushed into Gas Chambers, worked to death, starved to death, froze to death. They themselves were beaten, shot, experimented on, tortured, starved, etc.

A Holocaust Survivor ranges from 79 years old to in their 100s.

I have met a total of 86 Holocaust Survivors (and not all of them while working at the US Holocaust Museum in Washington DC.)

Every single Holocaust Survivor deserves to live the rest of their days with no worries about Food, Housing, Heat, Medicine, being attacked for being Jewish, etc.

January 27, 2026 is the 81st Anniversary of the Liberation of the Auschwitz Death Camp in German-Occupied Poland and International Holocaust Remembrance Day.