When soldiers came to take her away to Treblinka camp and be gassed, Lena Goldstein managed to hide under a pile of German uniforms in a laundry. The day remains seared in her mind, and as she tells her story today, having just celebrated her 100th birthday in Sydney, it is with a freshness and an urgency to ensure the atrocities are not forgotten.
Poland’s Jewish community is being reborn. It’s a trend being led not just by people who have recently discovered their Jewish ancestry, but also those without Jewish roots who wish to give back. Now Poland, where 1,000 years of Jewish history went up in flames over seven decades ago during the German occupation, is home to one of the fastest-growing Jewish communities in the world.
You can talk to people who have visited Auschwitz before, but nothing really prepares you for how you feel, think and react to walking through the former German concentration camp. Since 1999, the Holocaust Educational Trust has run the Lessons from Auschwitz project, giving thousands of students the opportunity to visit the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum. Auschwitz.
More than 150 UK MPs have signed a letter in support of the proposal to build a Holocaust memorial outside Parliament, saying it will “stand as a testimony” to fighting hatred..