Gabriella Soffer

‘So, how was the trip?’ Addressing this question elicited a different response each time it was asked. Depressing? Horrifying? Shocking? After visiting Majdanek, Belzec, Auschwitz-Birkenau and the...

Daniel Jacobs

After 1 hour sleep and a 4am wake up, we arrived in Warsaw around midday with a fully packed day ahead of us. Whilst we learnt about...

Mala Tribich MBE

We observed all the festivals but my father was not a regular synagogue goer. I attended school from the age of six, and we had a large...

Arek Hersh

Arek was born and brought up in Poland, the son of a boot-maker for the army. He had four siblings and was brought up in the Jewish...

Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma

Murder in Markowa While indifference and hostility to the Jews’ fate was common, some Poles chose to help their former Jewish neighbors, even though hiding Jews was...