Children of the Holocaust: Stories of Survival - Sidney Finkel

Sidney “Sevek” Finkel b.1939 in Lodz, Poland

At age eight, German bombs destroyed his home. He spent the war years in the Piotrkow ghetto, slave labor camps in Bugaj and Czestochowa, and Buchenwald concentration camp. He survived the Death March and was ultimately liberated at Theresienstadt.

0:00 - Intro
2:27 - Before the War
10:22 - The War Starts
15:52 - Piotrkow Ghetto
21:18 - 1942 Deportations Begin
27:14 - Bugaj Labor Camp
32:12 - Buchenwald
40:54 - Train to Nowhere
42:27 - Liberation
45:28 - Aftermath of Trauma
49:28 - Telling His Story
53:12 - Faith and Insights
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About CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST: STORIES OF SURVIVAL
From 1941 to 1945, Germany's Nazi regime murdered two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. Of the six million Jews who were victims of this genocide known as the Holocaust, an estimated 1.5 million were children. Against all odds, some managed to survive.

Project producer Laura Markowitz interviewed 19 child survivors of the Holocaust who now live in Southern Arizona. These first-hand accounts describe the brutality they witnessed and the acts of kindness that saved them.

This multi-platform, living-history project documents one of the darkest periods in human history — before this generation is gone and their stories are lost to us forever.

https://azpm.org/childrenoftheholocaust