In the Holocaust Fields

Follow an emotional story about the life of Miriam Brik and Ben Abraham. Born in Poland during World War II, they suffered prejudice and loss, but it was in Brazil that they met and formed a family.

Nanette Konig was born in Amsterdam, Holland. She witnessed the German invasion in her country. Follow the memories of a survivor of the concentration camps who lost her family and home during the war.

Rita Braun is Polish and Jewish. She lived with her mom in one of the ghettos in Germany. Rita remembers her life during World War II and how she was able to escape alive.

Meet Lola Anglister, she is Polish and when she was young she survived three concentration camps, one of them being Auschwitz. She talks about her family and the feeling of living in fear every day.

Michel Dymetman was born in the Polish capital in 1924. It was a miracle that he survived the Holocaust. Learn about his family's story and how they lived during that period.

Hana Jurika was born in Lodz, Poland. She saw her city transform in a ghetto for the Jewish community. She survived Auschwitz and describes her grief-stricken experience.

Born to a modest family in Frankfurt, Germany, Ernesto Strauss talks about the prejudice and threats he lived through from his childhood until the rise of Nazism.

Kiwa Kozuchowicz was born in Poland. She speaks about the most horrifying trip of her life: travelling by train towards the Auschwitz concentration camp. Her daughter, Rosana Kozuchowicz, recalls her father's stories about the Holocaust.