ABSTRACT
The collection of the recollections and the testimonies of Holocaust survivors includes 890 documents and continues to grow thanks to the participation of University, Ghetto Fighters House and the Spielberg Fund on collecting and selecting audio and video testimonies of the Jews survived that the Holocaust in Ukraine. The overwhelming majority of the Holocaust testimonies are from people who were young during the war. The desire to live led them to take risks, to overcome the feeling of the doom and to find rescue even in hopeless situations. The problems of religion, the observance of the Jewish traditions and the preservation of national customs were mentioned by many witnesses and were associated in the memories of the survivors with a sense of self-dignity, confidence and stability. Being young in the inter-war period, many people remembered the past and associated it with peaceful family relations and optimism.
