Category
page 1Polish Holocaust survivors
Roman Polanski
French-Polish filmmaker (born 1933)
Roald Hoffmann
Nobel laureate organic and inorganic chemist and Holocaust child survivor (born 1937)

Władysław Szpilman
(1911-2000) Polish pianist, composer, Holocaust survivor

Akiba Rubinstein
Russian-Polish chess player
Bronisława Wajs
Polish-Romani classical poet and singer
Yisrael Kristal
Holocaust survivor, oldest living man
Bella Darvi
actress (1928-1971)
Hanna Krall
Polish writer and journalist (born 1935)
Alfreda Markowska
Polish-Roma saviour of Holocaust and Porajmos victims (1926-2021)
Itzhak Stern
Polish accountant and Holocaust survivor (1901–1969)
Tuvia Bielski
Polish resistance member (1906–1987)
Yisrael Meir Lau
Polish-born Israeli rabbi and Holocaust survivor (b. 1937)
Martin Gray
Polish writer and Holocaust survivor (1922–2016)
Wanda Półtawska
Polish psychiatrist (1921–2023)
Chesty Morgan
American exotic dancer and actress
Michel Thomas
American linguist, language teacher, and résistance fighter (1914–2005)
Louis Begley
Polish–American novelist (born 1933)
Miriam Akavia
Polish-born Israeli writer and translator, a Holocaust survivor, and the president of the Platform for Jewish-Polish Dialogue (1927–2015)
Adam Daniel Rotfeld
Polish politician
Henryk Ross
Polish-born Israeli photographer and Holocaust survivor (1910–1991)
Janina Altman
Israeli writer and chemist
Jerzy Urban
Polish journalist, politician and propagandist, spokesman for the government of the People's Republic of Poland (1933–2022)
Nechama Tec
Polish historian (1931–2023)
Irena Klepfisz
lesbian Polish-American author, activist
Felix Zandman
Polish businessman
Rachel Auerbach
Yiddish and Polish author, historian and essayist (1903-1976)
Ben Helfgott
British weightlifter
Leopold Tyrmand
Polish writer and journalist (1920–1985)
Roma Ligocka
Costume designer, writer, painter
Dawid Kahane
Israeli rabbi and military personnel (1903–1998)
Wolf Leslau
Polish-Jewish, American linguist
Lena Küchler-Silberman
Israeli teacher
Filip Friedman
Polish-Jewish historian (1901-1960)
Diana Blumenfeld
Polish actor and musician (1903–1961)
Jonas Turkow
Polish and Jewish actor and director (1892-1982)
Kazimierz Krukowski
Polish Jewish cabaret performer and writer, revue and film actor (1901–1984)

Artur Sandauer
Polish author and translator (1913-1989)
Daniel Passent
Polish journalist (1938–2022)
Krystyna Żywulska
Polish writer and translator

Jerzy Rzedowski
Mexican botanist (1926–2023)
Irit Amiel
Polish-born Israeli poet
Zahava Burack
American activist (1932-2001)

Szymon Kluger
the last Jew to live in the town of Oświęcim (German: Auschwitz)
Yosef Carmon
Israeli actor and theater director (1933–2022)
Yaffa Eliach
Polish American historian, author, and scholar of Judaic studies and the Holocaust
Henryk Schönker
Polish and Israeli writer

Michał Głowiński
Polish writer
Joshua Zak
Israeli physicist
Michael Smuss
Israeli Holocaust survivor and artist
Rose Girone
Polish-born American supercentenarian
Tova Ben Zvi
Israeli singer
Edward Mosberg
Polish holocaust survivor
Alicia Appleman-Jurman
memoirist (1930–2017)

Nelly Ben-Or
Polish musician
Hélène Martini
French theater director
Natan Gross
writer, film producer and director (1919–2005)
Shlomo Halberstam
American rabbi (1907–2000)
Severyn Ashkenazy
polish-born American hotelier and philanthropist
Maciej Morawski
Polish journalist (1929-2021)
Mina Rosner
Canadian writer