This is a bit silly
Avram has it exactly right
“A surviror is someone who was locked up in camp by Germans YMS or their collaborators”
so someone who was rounded up with his family watched them all shot, managed to pretend to be dead then ran off to jopin a partisan group living on berries and such for 4 years isnt a holocaust survivor because he wasnt ” locked up in camp”
Interesting take. You said “Nevertheless, in our frum circles they are just not on the same pdesatl. ” and “I think the line is clear” Not in my frum circles and it isnt clear to me ,
and also not clear why this matters