Historical Figures of the Holocaust
6 videos • 1,150 views • by Yad Vashem "Short videos detailing the lives of several Jewish figures who were active in various locations during the Holocaust period. The videos portray the human stories of those Jews who were forced to fight a personal, unique battle within the context of the collective Jewish struggle for survival. Each of them has become, with time, a symbol of this fight for survival - be it in physical, actual, fighting; in the private struggle to continue to to create, act, and dream in impossible reality; or in documenting these terrible events. Some of these figures' stories also introduce us to those of various Jewish communities, in parallel with their personal memories. Taken together, therefore, these videos form a kind of mosaic of events during the Holocaust period, taken from a personal angle. "