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Bea Karp

Bea Karp was born Beate Stern in Lauterbach, Germany in 1932. She and her family were forced from their home and transported by passenger train to internment camps in the south of France. Bea and her sister Susie were saved by the Jewish French Underground, Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE), and were hidden in numerous chateaus and convents until the end of the war. They were never reunited with their parents who were murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Bea arrived in the US in 1947, later settling in Omaha with her husband and four daughters. Bea spoke extensively about her Holocaust experiences with Nebraska and Iowa schoolchildren and at community gatherings. Hear Bea's testimony in her own words.


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Enlighten yourselves

  • Date: April 9, 2021
  • Creator(s): Kutler, Sarah
  • Format: newspaper

Fighting Back

  • Date: 2021
  • Format: digitalpub
  • Source: University of Nebraska at Omaha

Small Resistances

  • Date: 2021
  • Format: digitalpub
  • Source: University of Nebraska at Omaha

Hiding Out

  • Date: 2021
  • Format: digitalpub
  • Source: University of Nebraska at Omaha

Speaking for the Masses

  • Date: 2021
  • Format: digitalpub
  • Source: University of Nebraska at Omaha

Making a Lasting Impact

  • Date: 2021
  • Format: digitalpub
  • Source: University of Nebraska at Omaha

Remembering the Past

  • Date: 2021
  • Format: digitalpub
  • Source: University of Nebraska at Omaha

Homage to OSE in Washington, November 2000

  • Date: November 2000
  • Creator(s): Waksman, Roger
  • Format: document

Remembering Bea Karp

  • Date: March 7, 2019
  • Creator(s): Hamor, Brittany
  • Format: newspaper

Bea Karp Walnut Middle School Testimony

  • Date: February 28, 2019
  • Format: testimony

Resistance: Simone Saves Refugee Children

  • Date: 2019
  • Format: digitalpub
  • Source: North Carolina Council on the Holocaust

Bea Karp: Holocaust survivor feels obligation to share painful memories

  • Date: March 15, 2018
  • Creator(s): Biga, Leo Adam
  • Format: digitalpub

A lesson in humanity

  • Date: May 2017
  • Creator(s): Felsing, Monika
  • Format: newspaper

Holocaust survivor shares stories with UNL students, Lincoln citizens

  • Date: April 20, 2017
  • Creator(s): Taylor, Ryan
  • Format: newspaper

Holocaust survivor tells her story to Karen Western sixth-graders

  • Date: February 22, 2017
  • Creator(s): Batchelder, Michael
  • Format: newspaper

Searching for Humanity

  • Date: January 11, 2017
  • Format: testimony

Iowa State University Design Faculty Member Brings Mother's Holocaust Story to School Stages

  • Date: December 6, 2016
  • Format: newspaper

Holocaust survivor set to tell story to students

  • Date: January 27, 2016
  • Creator(s): Pimper, Sam
  • Format: newspaper

The backbone of our nation

  • Date: November 12, 2015
  • Creator(s): Liewer, Steve
  • Format: newspaper

Holocaust survivor speaks at junior high

  • Date: May 20, 2015
  • Creator(s): George, Rachel
  • Format: newspaper

Survivor Bea Karp has no plans to stop talking about Holocaust

  • Date: March 15, 2015
  • Creator(s): Hansen, Matthew
  • Format: newspaper

Hansen: A broken doll reflects the horror of the Holocaust, and one survivor's resolve

  • Date: March 15, 2015
  • Creator(s): Hansen, Matthew
  • Format: newspaper

Survivor’s story a lesson in genocide

  • Date: March 13, 2015
  • Creator(s): Bell, Mike
  • Format: newspaper

Holocaust survivor shares her stories

  • Date: January 31, 2015
  • Creator(s): Stewart, Scott
  • Format: newspaper

Holocaust survivor tells Aurora students her story

  • Date: December 12, 2014
  • Creator(s): Pore, Robert
  • Format: newspaper

Middle School Students Videoconference With Holocaust Survivor

  • Date: April 7, 2014
  • Format: newspaper

Deborah Pappenheimer

  • Date: 2014
  • Format: photograph

Bea Karp

  • Date: 2014
  • Format: photograph

My Broken Doll

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Karp, Bea | Pappenheimer, Deborah
  • Format: book

Holocaust survivor speaks to Arlington students

  • Date: March 22, 2013
  • Creator(s): Real-McKeighan, Tammy
  • Format: newspaper

Holocaust Survivors Share Their Harrowing Stories with Area Students

  • Date: March 8, 2012
  • Creator(s): Real-McKeighan, Tammy
  • Format: newspaper

Letter from Michael J. Kelly to Bea Karp, September 29, 2011

  • Date: September 29, 2011
  • Format: letter

Creighton University Presidential Medallion

  • Date: May 14, 2011
  • Format: document

Bea Karp Honorary Degree

  • Date: 2011
  • Format: photograph

Bea Karp Recounts Her Holocaust Survivor Journey

  • Date: October 13, 2010
  • Format: digitalpub

Holocaust survivors get to say 'thank you'

  • Date: May 28, 2009
  • Creator(s): Wetzel, Diane
  • Format: newspaper

Kristallnacht memories still vivid to survivors — Two Omahans lived through the anti-Jewish riots in Hitler's Germany

  • Date: November 8, 2008
  • Creator(s): Burbach, Chris
  • Format: newspaper

Nazi-camp survivor breathes life into lessons — An Omaha woman shares her Holocaust memories with Catholic grade school students

  • Date: April 12, 2005
  • Creator(s): Gersema, Emily
  • Format: newspaper

Safety meant always moving

  • Date: January 23, 2005
  • Creator(s): Cordes, Henry J.
  • Format: newspaper

Majdanek, Poland 2005

  • Date: 2005
  • Format: photograph
  • Source: Institute for Holocaust Education

Bea Karp in Poland 2005

  • Date: 2005
  • Format: photograph
  • Source: Institute for Holocaust Education

Bea Karp Visits Auschwitz

  • Date: 2005
  • Format: photograph
  • Source: Institute for Holocaust Education

Bea Karp's Grandson, Danny Krantz

  • Date: 2005
  • Format: photograph
  • Source: Institute for Holocaust Education

Memorial at Auschwitz I

  • Date: 2005
  • Format: photograph
  • Source: Institute for Holocaust Education

Messages on Train Tracks Auschwitz-Birkenau - Poland 2005

  • Date: 2005
  • Format: photograph
  • Source: Institute for Holocaust Education

Bea Karp at Majdanek Memorial

  • Date: 2005
  • Format: photograph
  • Source: Institute for Holocaust Education

Bea Karp at Warsaw Monument

  • Date: 2005
  • Format: photograph
  • Source: Institute for Holocaust Education

Memorial at Majdanek

  • Date: 2005
  • Format: photograph
  • Source: Institute for Holocaust Education

Bea Karp with Family Members in Poland 2005

  • Date: 2005
  • Format: photograph
  • Source: Institute for Holocaust Education

Entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau

  • Date: 2005
  • Format: photograph
  • Source: Institute for Holocaust Education
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