For eight Long Island residents, the stories of surviving the Holocaust remain just as vivid over eight decades later.

Holocaust survivors from across Queens gathered for a “Coffee House” celebration hosted by Selfhelp Community Services on Wednesday, June 4, marking Holocaust Survivor Day.

Holocaust survivors from Long Island will join a discuss about antisemitism on Thursday.

Susan Kalev, 80, lives in a two-bedroom apartment in Washington Heights. On a sunny spring day, you’ll find her three cats zooming around her apartment, surrounded by gallery walls of photos documenting Kalev’s long and full life.

As a young boy during WWII, Sami Steigmann spent three years in a Nazi labor camp at Mogilev-Podolsky, in the Transnistria region of Ukraine. Now living in New York, he devotes himself to telling his story and sharing his practice of resilience — and embrace of life.

The city’s Witness Theater program is marking 13 years of bringing together Holocaust survivors and high school students.

Cindy Crawford, Jennifer Garner, Billy Porter and other stars posed for portraits with Holocaust survivors in an effort to educate people about that dark time in history.

A group of Holocaust survivors in Queens gathered for an early Passover celebration on Wednesday, April 9, at the Forest Hills Jewish Center for Holocaust Survivors, located at 106-06 Queens Blvd. in Forest Hills.

Temple Beth Sholom in Roslyn Heights led a day of celebration for Purim last Thursday that took on a special meaning as Holocaust survivors gathered with their families, workers, and volunteers from Selfhelp Community Services for the lunch event.