Eyewitness to History: Holocaust Survivor Halina Peabody

The Eyewitness to History video library was created to enable audiences everywhere to hear firsthand testimony from Holocaust survivors. This video was created from a live digital program, First Person: Conversations with Holocaust Survivors, recorded on February 16, 2022. It features Halina Peabody, who was born in Krakow, Poland, in 1932, and moved to Zaleszczyki soon after. After Germany invaded eastern Poland in 1941, Halina, her sister, and their mother were forced to move into an open ghetto. Halina’s mother managed to buy documents from a Catholic priest allowing the family to assume new identities which helped them avoid capture by the Nazis. They were reunited with Halina’s father who had been a member of the Anders army. After the war, the family settled in England.
Learn more about Halina: www.ushmm.org/remember/holoca...

[@cherylwood8706]

Thank you for sharing your story.

[@jerryloufretz1797]

A miraculous story of survival.

[@Jetmab04]

Thanks so much for sharing these memories. And thanks for keeping on,, telling it to us all! This is so important as, we certainly don't want similar to happen agaín. Thanks again 💕❤️💕

[@terriheimann2526]

Thank you.

[@beckybrann1427]

Thank you

[@mmoore3743]

What a brave lady her mother was and a brave child she was! I can’t even imagine being so brave!

[@dianakent8393]

Thank you so much for sharing your story .May God Bless you and your family .x

[@user-gi7wg6bn3b]

Lord Bless you and your work! Lord abundantly Bless and restore Holocaust survivors!

[@marciobaterahvoltandoasrai793]

incredible...

[@hw3748]

What a crime - shocking.

[@marietgagliardi]

I like to hear about everyone's lives before the holocaust. It helps make the stories seem more real. They were real people with lives just like ours today and then the unimaginable happened

[@miriamwells35]

Lots of Catholics from this era. Catholics were also persecuted.

[@denisetaylor-crommett4781]

Amazing the bravery of her mother, smart enough to hide in plain site right under the Germans noses.

[@tiffanyprichard2197]

I would love to volunteer but I’m far away. How wonderful to keep this very hateful time. We are all human, 🤍💙🤍💙

[@Lena-yj4il]

My first name also is Halina :).