Eyewitness to History: Holocaust Survivor Arye Ephrath

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 November 16, 2022. It features Holocaust survivor Arye Ephrath, who was born in the Nazi German client state of Slovakia in 1942. His family avoided deportation for a number of years before going into hiding in Šišov, an isolated village in western Slovakia, in 1944. Arye spent the rest of the war hiding with a local shepherd and his family and pretending to be a girl to avoid suspicion, while his parents were hidden by a different family in a hole beneath a barn floor. Learn more about Arye: https://www.ushmm.org/remember/holocaust-survivors/volunteers/arye-ephrath