My late father fled Berlin in 1936 when the Gestapo came for him and shut down the entire Jewish newspaper he worked for. Yes, he is a holocaust survivor. However, I think there has to be a cut off line. This was a little girl , not in Germany, and she and her parents left before the nastiness even started.

My father had also previously been beaten up on the 1st April 1933 when he went to his job as an attorney in the German lawcourts. He was in the front line.