Jeanne Salomon fled the Nazis, lost her husband and child, endured Auschwitz, survived the death marches and made a new life for herself in Luxembourg. Her son Henri Juda tells the story of his mother, an extraordinary and courageous woman.
Be inspired by the story of Dieter Rogalla riding his bike to create a Europe without borders. Let’s listen as his son Frank tells us about Dieter’s dreams of integration and unity, and cooperation and peace across borders.
Edith Steinschreiber Bruck was born in 1931 in Tiszabercel, a small town in Hungary close to the border with Slovakia and Ukraine. She is a writer, poet, screenwriter, director, playwright, translator, and Holocaust survivor. Let’s listen to her story.
This is the story of Serge Klarsfeld, a French historian, writer and lawyer who was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1935. And this is how his story, and that of his family, begins: a story which is intertwined with the history of France. In summer 1940, France was split into two zones: the northern, or ‘occupied’ zone, under the control of the Nazis, and the southern, or ‘free’ zone under the control of the Vichy regime. In south-eastern France the situation changed in 1942.
This is the story of Katarina and her family. This is the story of a survivor. Katarina’s father survived the Holocaust in inhuman conditions but he lost many family members in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Born in Milan on 10 September 1930, Liliana Segre survived the horrors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. She belonged to a wealthy middle-class Italian Jewish family from Milan, for which religion had always been of secondary importance only.
On 9 September 1939, the Wehrmacht entered Mosina, a town near Poznań. Repression, arrests and massacres began immediately. The most tragic year was 1943, when the German occupation authorities uncovered a resistance movement in Mosina. Among those persecuted was the Jeżewicz family.
This is the story of Elza. Elza Mavrič Kumar. As a young woman, Elza had to face an adolescence marked by fear. Today she is 90 years old. She told us her story which cannot fail to touch us with its clarity, respect and its strong message calling for peace in Europe. Hundreds of stories, documents, photos and videos published by people from all over Europe. This is My History, a collaborative project of the European Parliament, where History and the lives of European citizens coincide.
In 1989, Jozef Mad’ar and his TV crew from what was then Yugoslavia were sent to film civil protests for freedom and democracy in the former Czechoslovakia. Let us listen to his recollections as he takes us on a journey through the streets of Bratislava.
In December 1989, Romania was experiencing violent civil unrest which culminated in the events that changed the country forever. Follow Otilia’s footsteps through the streets of Bucharest and relive the decisive moments of the Romanian revolution.