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Auschwitz concentration camp survivors

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Elie Wiesel
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)
Imre Kertész
Hungarian author (1929–2016)
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
Viktor Frankl
Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905–1997)
Simone Veil
French politician (1927–2017)
Witold Pilecki
Polish underground resistance soldier, World War II concentration camp resistance leader (1901-1948)
Otto Heinrich Frank
father of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank (1889–1980)
Ceija Stojka
Austrian-Romani writer, painter, activist, and musician, and survivor of the Holocaust (1933-2013)
Józef Cyrankiewicz
Polish politician (1911–1989)
Branko Lustig
Croatian film producer (1932-2019)
Władysław Bartoszewski
Polish politician and activist (1922–2015)
Jack Tramiel
American businessman (1928-2012)
Tadeusz Borowski
Polish writer and journalist (1922-1951)
Jean Améry
Austrian-born essayist and Holocaust survivor (1912-1978)
Arnošt Lustig
Czech Jewish author (1926–2011)
Zofia Posmysz
Polish journalist and writer
Yisrael Kristal
Holocaust survivor, oldest living man
Liliana Segre
Italian Holocaust survivor and senator for life
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka
Polish writer
Eva Schloss
Austrian‑British Holocaust survivor and memoirist (1929–2026)
Alina Szapocznikow
Polish sculptor (1926-1973)
Edith Bruck
Hungarian Italian writer and film director
Ludwik Fleck
Polish physician (1896–1961)
Wilhelm Brasse
Polish photographer (1917-2012)
Eva Mozes Kor
Romanian-born Holocaust survivor and author (1934-2019)
Karel Ančerl
Czech conductor, composer and director conductor of Czech Philharmonic (1908–1973)
Ruth Klüger
Austrian-born American writer, literature scholar and Holocaust survivor (1931-2020)
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
German-born musician and Holocaust survivor (b. 1925)
Stanisława Leszczyńska
Polish obstetrician
Cordelia Edvardson
German-born Swedish journalist, author and Holocaust survivor
Igor Newerly
Polish writer (1903–1987)
Adolf Burger
Jewish Slovak typographer, memoir writer, and Holocaust survivor (1917–2016)
Adam Kozłowiecki
Catholic cardinal (1911-2007)
Edith Eger
American clinical psychologist and Holocaust survivor (1927–2026)
Gisella Perl
gynecologist and author (1907–1988)
Miklós Nyiszli
Jewish prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp (1901–1956)
Charlotte Delbo
French writer and resistance fighter (1913-1985)
Franciszek Gajowniczek
Polish Army officer (1901–1995)
Marceline Loridan-Ivens
director, screenwriter and actor (1928-2018)
Leon Schiller
Polish director (1887-1954)
Israel Gutman
Polish-born Israeli histoiran and Holocaust survivor (1923-2013)
Wanda Jakubowska
Polish film director (1907–1998)
Yehiel De-Nur
Jewish Holocaust survivor and writer (1909–2001)
Stefan Jaracz
Polish actor (1883-1945)
Hédi Fried
Swedish writer; survivor of the Holocaust
Ivan Ivanji
Serbian writer
Chava Rosenfarb
Holocaust survivor and Jewish-Canadian author
Halina Birenbaum
Polish-born Holocaust survivor, Israeli writer, poet, translator and activist (b. 1929)
Zuzana Růžičková
Czech cemballist, pianist and music educator (1927–2017)
Marian Turski
Polish historian
Miriam Akavia
Polish-born Israeli writer and translator, a Holocaust survivor, and the president of the Platform for Jewish-Polish Dialogue (1927–2015)
Esther Bejarano
German concentration camp survivor (1924-2021)
Batszewa Dagan
Polish-born Israeli Holocaust survivor, educator, author, and speaker (1925-2024)
Ovitz family
family
Thomas Buergenthal
Slovak born Holocaust survivor, American jurist and judge on the International Court of Justice (1934-2023)
David Weiss Halivni
American-Israeli Talmudist (1927-2022)
Dina Babbitt
Czech artist (1923-2009)
Noah Klieger
Israeli journalist
Józef Korbas
Polish footballer (1914-1981)
Xawery Dunikowski
Polish sculptor artist (1875–1964)