Children of the Holocaust: Stories of Survival - Willy Halpert

b. 1933 in Metz, France

He was nine when the Nazis suddenly arrested his father on the streets of Antwerp. Willy was hidden by the Belgian underground and kept in boarding schools until the war’s end.

00:00 - Intro
02:41 - Before the War
07:38 - Germany Invades Antwerp, 1940
12:53 - Hidden Child
15:23 - Chateau Beloeil
22:05 - College Pater Jozefieten
25:10 - Liberation, 1945
27:19 - Andree Geulen
32:06 - After the War
35:45 - Zionism
39:40 - Telling His Story
40:10 - Faith
41:12 - 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