Georgia Voices - Camp and Forced Labor Survivors

Georgia Voices of the Holocaust is a collection of video recorded interviews.  This grouping of survivor interviews features individuals who survived the harsh conditions of concentration camps or forced labor situations. 

Tosia Schneider sits for a GCH interview
  • Tosia Szechter Schneider

    Born in Galicia, Poland in 1929, Tosia suffered unimagined pain, loss and devastation in the ghettos of Horodenka and in the labor camp of Lisowce. By war's end, Tosia was the sole survivor in her family.

  • Henry Friedman

    Henry was 21 years old when Nazi troops invaded Romania in early 1944. He worked in an arms manufacturing facility near Budapest and later saved from a forced march by the legendary Swedish rescuer diplomat Raoul Wallenberg. 

  • Dr. John Galambos

    After the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, John survived labor and concentration camps, later immigrating to the United States and becoming a renowned gastroenterologist and professor at Emory University. 

  • Ann Klug

    After two years in the ghetto in Vilna, Poland, 19 year old Ann survived harsh conditions at work camps in Estonia, but her parents were murdered at Ponary,  a massacre site where 70,000 Jews were killed.  Ann was liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany in April,1945.

  • Tom Reed

    When Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, 12-year old Tom Reed and his family were sent to live in a ghetto before being deported to Auschwitz, where much of his family was murdered. Tom and his father spent the next 11 months in a series of work camps. 

  • Ben Walker

    Born near Czernowitz, Romania, young Ben and his family were deported to Transnistria, a dangerous occupied territory where Romanian authorities established several ghettos and concentration camps.  Ben and his mother were the only family survivors, and after the war, they immigrated to Israel and eventually the U.S.

  • Helen Weingarten

    When the Nazis invaded Romania, Helen's large family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkinau. There she narrowly escaped death when she was among 500 women selected by Mengele who were marched toward the gas chambers, then suddenly redirected and sent to Germany for slave labor.