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Impact of the Holocaust

1933-1945. The Holocaust was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its World War II collaborators killed approximately six million European Jews. The victims included 1.5 million children and resulted in killing of two-thirds of the nine million Jews in Continental Europe.
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 Felix Bauer | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Felix Bauer | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Born in Vienna in 1914, Felix Bauer lived with anti-Semitism even before Hitler's takeover of Austria. When the Nazis invaded, his father said, "Nobody will do anything to me." But the killings...
 Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Joe Engel was born near Warsaw, Poland in 1927. His father ran a luncheonette grocery. He went to public school in a small Jewish community and felt the animosity created by anti-Semitism. In 1942 all...
 Pincus Kolender | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Pincus Kolender | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Pincus Kolender was born in 1926 in Poland. In 1940 synagogues, schools, and businesses were closed to Jews, who were placed in ghettos. One always felt trapped in the ghetto. The Nazis treated people...
 Trude Heller | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Trude Heller | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Trude Heller's family narrowly escaped deportation to a concentration camp, but still had to live through other anxieties. At 14, she was made to quit school, and the family was forced out of their...
 Max Heller | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Max Heller | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Max Heller was born in Vienna in 1919 into an orthodox Jewish home. His father was a businessman. Heller drew strength from the Jewish community and from non-Jewish friends. Due to anti-Semitism...