Yosef Diamant is a Holocaust survivor who survived the horrors in the death camp at Auschwitz. He is the only survivor of his immediate family. His parents and three brothers were all murdered. The Dayament – Sager family decided to tattoo Yosef’s “Holocaust number” on their forearm as a tribute to him, and so as to never forget what happened. Arik, Yosef’s grandson, decided to get the tattoo after a lot of consideration. “I had to think about the decision very carefully, and at first, my grandfather was reluctant about it, but in the end, he asked me: “when your grandson will see the tattoo will you tell him about me?” “We decided to add a small diamond next to the number in honor of our family name, Diamant, which means diamond in German.”

Zippora Singer We were a happy family in 1941, before the war reached us. We knew who Hitler was, but couldn’t imagine the disaster that would befall us because of him. I am the only survivor from my family. I saw Polish friends decline to the worst inhuman conduct, and other people, whose life depended on their last piece of bread, sharing it with others. What the Nazis did to me and to my people will not be forgotten as long as I live, but as an optimistic person I feel obliged to share two lessons I had learned back then: that it is our duty to help peoples and human beings in trouble, and that the human spirit can be found even within the depth of evil. Klaus Himmelstoss is my evidence. Himmelstoss, a Wehrmacht soldier deployed in our occupied town, took me over to work in his house, ...

The last survivor of the ‘Babi Yar’ massacre “Over the course of two days on September 29-30, 1941, Nazi Germany’s forces and Ukrainian accomplices massacred approximately 33,771 Jews. Among those massacred were my infant brother Volodya, my baby sister Clara and my mother. Even though I was only six years old I still remember every gruesome detail. I wish I dIdn’t but the sights, sounds, and smell of the gun powder still haunt me to this day. The Nazis moved us through a checkpoint, took our documents, our jewelry, and everything we had. Then the selection process began: All the healthy men were sent to forced labor, the women and children were sent to two different places and all the rest – old and the young, were sent to the massive death pit. My mom was holding my baby brother Volodya who was just four months old. next to them was ...