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Jan 18,

Today is Holocaust survivor Zigi Shipper BEM's 92nd birthday. Please wish this remarkable man a very happy birthday and #sendhimsomelove.

To learn more about his story, read below:

Zigi was born on 18th January 1930, to a Jewish family in Łódź, Poland and attended a Jewish school. When he was five years old his parents divorced, and he went to live with his father and his grandparents.

In 1939, when war broke out, Zigi’s father escaped to the Soviet Union, believing that it was only young Jewish men who were at risk. However, in 1940 Zigi and his grandparents were forced into the Łódź Ghetto. His father attempted to return, but Zigi never saw his father again.

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Jan 18, 2021

Happy birthday to Zigi Shipper who is 91 today! #SendSomeLove to him on his birthday.

Read this thread to find out more about Zigi's life...

Zigi was born on 18th January 1930, to a Jewish family in Łódź, Poland and attended a Jewish school. When he was five years old his parents divorced but, because they were Orthodox Jews and divorce was frowned upon, he was told that his mother had died.

Following his parents’ divorce he lived with his father and his grandparents. In 1939, when war broke out, Zigi’s father escaped to the Soviet Union, believing that it was only young Jewish men who were at risk, and not children or the elderly.

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Nov 9, 2020

We have worked with several Holocaust survivors who witnessed Kristallnacht. Below are some of their testimonies.

Ernest witnessed Kristallnacht. From his bedroom window, he could see the prayer books and Torah scrolls from the synagogue on his road being deliberately burned.

"Life as I had known it, stopped"

Susan Oppenheimer was a Jewish teenager in Nuremberg when Kristallnacht happened. Read her account of Kristallnacht from our 70 Voices resource: 70voices.org.uk/content/day11

Walter Kammerling BEM, who turned 97 this year, witnessed Kristallnacht. His parents decided to send him to Britain on the Kindertransport. Read his testimony here: het.org.uk/survivors-walt…

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Nov 9, 2020

If you want to find out more about Kristallnacht we have a list of resources below.

Martin Winstone, the Trust's Education Officer, wrote on the origins and impact of Kristallnacht: het.org.uk/news-and-event…

Teachers: we look at Kristallnacht and its aftermath through the words of its victims in our Nazi Persecution of Jews in Germany lesson, available free as part of our Exploring the Holocaust scheme of work: het.org.uk/exploring-the-…

In this special blog originally to mark the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, we are privileged to be able to share the memories of Holocaust survivor Freddie Knoller BEM.

Read his words here: het.org.uk/news-and-event…

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Nov 9, 2020

82 years ago #OnThisDay the #Kristallnacht pogrom took place. Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues were attacked across Germany and Austria and in areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia recently occupied by German troops throughout the night of the 9-10 November.

Hundreds of synagogues and Jewish institutions were attacked and destroyed. SA and Hitler Youth members shattered the shop windows of an estimated 7,500 Jewish-owned commercial establishments and looted them. Cemeteries became a particular object of desecration in many regions.

The pogrom was especially destructive in Berlin and Vienna, the two largest Jewish communities in these areas.

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Nov 7, 2020

We are deeply saddened to hear of the loss of Rabbi Lord Sacks z"l.

Karen Pollock CBE, Chief Executive, Holocaust Educational Trust said:

“It is hard to put into words the loss of Rabbi Lord Sacks – an indomitable titan of the Jewish community.

He was an Ambassador for our community, for this country and beyond. His supreme intellect, endless books and writings reached far beyond our shores. His vision, leadership and wisdom changed our world for the better as the greatest modern religious thinker of our time.

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