Oded and Shraga Milstein, in a testimony about the Holocaust
Our Holocaust Story: Testimony Stories of Holocaust Survivors and Their Families (Claims Conference)
"Our Holocaust Story" is a digital campaign that includes short videos of Holocaust survivors and family members sharing personal testimonies of persecution and survival.
The family members pledge to "never forget", and promise that these stories will be told in the future as well.
The campaign arises against the backdrop of a trending and alarming increase in the level of anti-Semitism throughout the world, when just last January it was shown in an alarming survey conducted by the Claims Conference in the Netherlands that 12% of all respondents believe that the Holocaust is a myth or an exaggeration and 53% did not know that the Holocaust also took place in the Netherlands.
These days, when Holocaust survivors who are still alive are few with an average death rate of 40 Holocaust survivors per day in Israel, first-hand stories have become a rare and necessary resource in the fight against the rising trend of anti-Semitism.
For the benefit of the campaign, hundreds of Holocaust survivors from around the world mobilized, including Holocaust survivors living today in Israel, and together with their grandchildren told their Holocaust story to the camera and pledged together to continue spreading the family story throughout the world and for future generations:
Aliza and Adam Landau (Photo: Public Relations)
"The lessons of the Holocaust will not be forgotten"
Gideon Taylor, President of the Claims Conference
: "Each Holocaust survivor has a strong and unique survival story. By passing these stories on among their family, they make sure that their story is told and that the lessons of the Holocaust are not forgotten. Together, all these stories tell the history of the Holocaust, the history that we must preserve and share. Only Then we can truly say 'never again'".
Greg Schneider, Senior Vice President of the Claims Conference, said, "When we see a Holocaust survivor with his family members, we get a strong message - they not only survived the Holocaust, they continued to live, to build a family, a family that would not have existed if they had not survived. To all Holocaust survivors have a profound effect on the world, and it is our responsibility to pass on the torch of their testimony. We all need to commit to remembering."
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The campaign demonstrates the importance of passing on the testimonies of Holocaust survivors.
Many Holocaust survivors do not have children and even those who do, carry the tremendous weight of bearing witness.
The videos from the campaign reach beyond the survivors and their families and are the tool that ensures that future generations will get to know the personal stories and learn from them the very important lessons of the Holocaust.
Shraga Milstein, a Holocaust survivor from Poland who lives in Israel
, shared his story and said: "In 1943, the ghetto in Piotrkow, my hometown, was closed, and we were transferred to the Buchenwald camp. In 1945, when I was released from the Bergen-Belsen camp, I was 12 years old. My parents perished."
Yehuda, George and Robert Lindenblatt,
Three Holocaust survivor brothers from Hungary who all live in New York, came together with their families to create a video for the campaign.
In their video, Yehuda talks about his responsibility to share the story alongside the difficulty of telling it, saying, "I survived the Holocaust and I have to tell the story over and over again... I was so hungry. If you've never experienced hunger, you can't explain to anyone what It."
Oded and Shraga Milstein (Photo: Public Relations)
The campaign is initiated by the Claims Conference and is supported by more than 50 institutions and museums from around the world.
The Conference for Material Jewish Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), is a non-profit organization, with offices in New York, Israel and Germany, working to obtain material compensation for Holocaust survivors around the world.
The organization, which was established in 1951 by representatives of 23 international Jewish organizations, manages negotiations and distributes funds to individuals and organizations, and works to restore Jewish property that was stolen during the Holocaust.
Following negotiations with the Claims Conference in 1952, the German government has since paid over $90 billion in personal reparations to survivors for suffering and losses caused by Nazi persecution.
In 2022, the Claims Conference will distribute close to $700 million in personal compensation to more than 210,000 survivors in 83 countries and allocate approximately $720 million in grants to more than 300 aid organizations around the world, which provide essential services to Holocaust survivors, such as home nursing, food and medicine.
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