A Comprehensive Database of All Holocaust Survivor Autobiographies and Biographies
This website is designed to be a comprehensive database of all who lived to tell their stories, both of themselves and the 6 million others who were murdered. It’s intended to preserve in one place their stories and provide a direct and easily accessible way for readers to search for and purchase any of those stories. This is an entirely non-profit website, researched and created by a high school senior and his family in Dallas, Texas, and we make no commission of any kind if you choose to purchase these books from the provided sources.
About This Archive
This website is a not-for-profit effort to create the most comprehensive online archive of Holocaust survivor autobiographies. With over 100 entries and growing, our mission is to ensure that these personal stories are never forgotten. Some book summaries include information incorporated from other websites, including those sites from which users can purchase the books.
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Our Mission
To preserve and share the personal story of Holocaust survival, ensuring that future generations learn the truth, honor the victims, and stand against hatred, discrimination, and intolerance.
Our Vision
The Holocaust was not only the story of the destruction of millions of Jews but also the suffering of many others who were targeted by Hitler’s regime. Christians who opposed Nazi ideology, along with Roma (Gypsies), people with disabilities, political prisoners, and others, were persecuted and killed.
As a survivor, this story is not only about enduring unimaginable hardship, but also about remembering those who could not speak for themselves. The pain of losing family, friends, and community is carried for a lifetime, yet survival means having the duty to share the truth.
This testimony is a reminder that hatred and intolerance can destroy countless innocent lives. By telling this story, we honor all victims and ensure that future generations learn the lessons of history—so that such cruelty is never repeated again.
The Books
Adieu Birkenau: Ginette Kolinka’s Story of Survival
Adieu Birkenau: Ginette Kolinka’s Story of Survival
First Name: Ginette
Last Name: Kolinka
Country of Origin : France
Camps : Auschwitz-Birkenau
It is April 1944. Nineteen-year-old Ginette Kolinka arrives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Her father and little brother are immediately gassed. Ginette is selected as a worker. She survives. It is October 2020. Ninety-five-year-old Ginette takes advantage of a lull in the COVID-19 epidemic to accompany a group visiting Birkenau one last time. As a farewell, she brings with her a journalist, France Info’s Victor Matet, and a comic strip writer, J-D Morvan. From this trip, a comic book is born. Ginette tells of her life before the war, how she discovered she was Jewish, how her family fled Paris before she and her father were denounced. She tells the story of the camp; completely, honestly, without seeking pity. We see her today, how she still shares her story with the world, how she still stands and bears witness. Ginette tells everything with her trademark liveliness and biting humor. We often laugh, and sometimes we shudder. Because the story she tells is ours, too.
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