http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkYFo8-AUhg

In this video Hawa, a 14-year-old Ebola survivor from Sierra Leone, recounts her experience of catching Ebola and surviving it. Of first coming down with the disease, she says: “At first I felt a pain in my chest. It was my heart, it was beating so fast. It was so painful. I used to cry. I had headaches and my body was becoming hot. I didn’t know it was Ebola.” Hawa lost both her aunt and younger brother to Ebola, and mentions that the rest of her family also came down with the disease. Of her recovery, she says: “It feels good because now I can see my friends. My other aunt, mother, father, brother, and uncle are here. I can see them all. I can be happy again.”

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14-Year-Old Ebola Survivor: “I Can Be Happy Again” appeared first on Witnify.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdThPJuJ5lM

This Holocaust survivor gives her account of being in hiding from the Nazis. She talks about living in a barrel underground for a year and a half. While in hiding, she recalls wishing she was Christian instead of Jewish. After finding refuge on a boat called the Exodus, she remembers seeing a boy wave an Israeli flag and, in that moment, she “found meaning in being Jewish.”

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Holocaust Survivor: ‘I Found Meaning in Being Jewish’ appeared first on Witnify.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgbdlG9enSM

Holocaust survivor Noemi Shadmi gives her emotional account of what it was like after her mother, father, and older brother were taken from their house to labor camps. Shadmi explains that she knew she had one job; to keep her younger brother safe. Her account tells the story of how she protected her brother, helped others, and picked up the pieces of her own life after the liberation.

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An Older Sister’s Account of The Holocaust appeared first on Witnify.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2iEdfrTOwU

Zanne Farbstein, a holocaust survivor, gives her powerful account of what it was like to be in Auschwitz for three years with her sisters. She explains the suffering they went through and the sad fact that everyone there was constantly waiting for death. Farbstein says that she has “shear joy” that she was able to still be a normal person after all that she went through.

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Holocaust Survivor: ‘We Waited for Death’ appeared first on Witnify.