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Family Remembers Auschwitz Survivor's Will to Survive

Milwaukee, Wis. -- Zygmunt Choroszy was buried Saturday with the number 134 tattooed on his arm. Tucked into his coffin was the faded holy card he would hide in his mouth from Nazi guards while at Auschwitz. Choroszy, a Polish Catholic and political prisoner, was arrested for underground activity in late 1939. He survived...

For Holocaust Survivor, Life Is Still Beautiful

LONDON (Nov. 25) -- Former concert pianist Alice Herz-Sommer is living proof of the power of music. The world's oldest Holocaust survivor, who celebrates her 107th birthday Friday, endured the deprivations of the Prague ghetto, imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp and the murder of her husband, mother and countless...

Ancient Treasure Now Family's Holocaust Talisman

(April 11) -- A recent New York state court case has brought to light the remarkable journey of an ancient gold tablet from the sands of Iraq to a safe-deposit box in Long Island. The 3,200-year-old artifact, which fits easily into the palm of a hand, disappeared from the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin during World...

Background on Holocaust survivor

There are many Holocaust survivors who went on to achieve a measure of objective notability. Those listed here were, at the very least, residents of the parts of Europe occupied by the Axis powers during World War II who survived until the end of the Holocaust (and the war).

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