Susan Berlin
Susan was born an only child to a conservative Jewish family in Roznava, Slovakia. Her mother and father owned a dry-goods store. Susan was thirteen years old when the war began. News of the evils of the concentration camps reached Roznava and Susan’s father decided to take his family out of Slovakia as fast as possible. Her father had a brother in the United States that would assist her family in receiving Visas. They sailed into New York City on the S.S. Washington on August 3, 1939.
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Who is a Survivor?
The Museum defines a survivor as a person who was displaced, persecuted, and/or discriminated against by the racial, religious, ethnic, social, and political policies of the Nazis and their allies. In addition to former inmates of concentration camps and ghettos this includes, among others, refugees and people in hiding.
Survivor Volunteers
Sam and Regina Spiegel (both survivor volunteers) first met in a Nazi forced-labor camp. They were reunited after the war. This photograph shows their wedding in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp in Germany.
Sam and Regina Spiegel, Maryland/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #29745
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Contact Us
Ellen Blalock
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, D.C. 20024-2126
E-mail: eblalock@ushmm.org
Tel.: (202) 488-0414
Rachel Wagner
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, D.C. 20024-2126
E-mail: rwagner@ushmm.org
Tel.: (202) 479-9732
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If you are interested in arranging a speaking engagement with a survivor either at the Museum or in your community, please refer to Guidelines for Arranging a Survivor Presentation.
TIBOR RUBIN
Holocaust Survivor and Korean War POW
Tibor Rubin, a Survivor from Mauthausen concentration camp, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his courageous service during the Korean War at a White House ceremony on September 23, 2005. Mr. Rubin, a former Army Corporal, is the first Jewish Korean War veteran and the first Holocaust Survivor to be awarded this honor.
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What We Do
- Represent and work with over 60 survivor volunteers at the Museum.
- Support Public Programs at the Museum, such as First Person.
- Organize conferences and programs outside the Museum. (Our representatives travel throughout the United States and all over Europe).
- Coordinate The Memory Project which is a Writers Workshop for Survivor Volunteers which meet once a month.
- Form links with other Survivor and Second Generation organizations worldwide.
The Museum is
SEEKING SURVIVORS
who resided in France, Italy, Switzerland and Germany in 1946.
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