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Harry Olmer: from concentration camps to tea with the Prime Minister

Karen Pollock CBE is the chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust

By Karen Pollock

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Harry Olmer survived the Buchenwald concentration camp and the infamous 'death marches' and is now a beloved member of his community in the UK (Image: Alamy)

"Post October 7, it feels even more critical that the Jew hatred of the past is understood" says HET chief executive Karen Pollock (Photo: HMDT/Grainge Photography)

Holocaust Memorial Day should only be about the Shoah

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Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert (L) stands with her her great-grandson Dov Forman as she poses with her medal after being appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) following an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle, on January 31, 2023. (Photo: Getty Images)

Lily refused to let a chance to tell the truth slip by

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Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg BEM chats to Sir Keir Starmer at the Holocaust Educational Trust's annual dinner (Photo: the Holocaust Educational Trust)

Courage gives us a glimmer of hope in the darkness

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AI means voices of Holocaust survivors will live on

With survivors sadly becoming fewer and fewer, Holocaust educators are using the latest technology to share their stories

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June 20, 2024 12:13

Students at Sacred Heart Catholic School participating in a Testimony 360 lesson, a new interactive learning programme for delivering Holocaust education in UK schools created by the Holocaust Educational Trust (Photo: handout)

This Yom HaShoah calls for extra strength

We will stand together to demand the unconditional release of the hostages and pray for peace in the region. Our courage has sprouted again and it will not be silenced

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April 26, 2024 13:27

German pianist Igor Levit plays a yellow piano in Berlin in support of Israeli pianist Alon Ohel taken hostage by Hamas

The Prince of Wales has reminded us that the Jewish community is not alone

Remembering the Holocaust and taking a stand against antisemitism is intrinsic to who the Royal Family are

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March 5, 2024 15:06

The Prince of Wales during a visit to the Western Marble Arch Synagogue, where he joined a conversation with young Ambassadors of the Holocaust Educational Trust (Picture by Andrew Palace / Kensington Palace)

The Holocaust did not start with gas chambers

On this Holocaust Memorial Day more than ever we must remember how Jew-hate spreads

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January 25, 2024 14:15

Rishi Sunak speaks via a pre-recorded broadcast during a Holocaust Memorial day event at Guildhall on January 24, 2024 (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

During Kristallnacht, the Jews were defenceless. 85 years on, we can defend ourselves from hate

In 1945 it was thought the flame of antisemitism had burnt out but this is certainly not the case 85 years on

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November 9, 2023 16:07

2PH7YJ9 The Ruined Ohel Yaakov synagogue in Munich. Kristallnacht was a nationwide pogrom that was organised and carried out by the nazi Party on the 9th November 1938. Shops and synagogues were destroyed and people humiliated and beaten while the police looked on, or even helped. Though the amount of damage and the number of people attacked was quite small, the fact that it was completely unopposed showed the Nazis that they could really start in on the Jews and, as such, is one of the major milestones on the way to The Holocaust. https://commons.wiki

80 years on from the Holocaust, it is the young who are our hope

On Rosh Hashanah, I think of a 14-year-old boy who so determined to survive that he, along with 150 others, dug himself out of a labour camp

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September 14, 2023 14:11

Two lit shabbat candles in silver candlesticks

Ben Helfgott was a tireless campaigner for Holocaust education and my hero

Holocaust Educational Trust CEO Karen Pollock shares her memories of Ben Helfgott

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June 16, 2023 11:40

Holocaust survivor Ben Helfgott holds a memorial candle as he stands on the Millennium Bridge in central London on January 27, 2013 during an event marking Holocaust Memorial Day. AFP PHOTO/Leon Neal (Photo credit should read LEON NEAL/AFP via Getty Images)

'Special club' is where Shoah survivors found their family

The Primrose Club and now the '45 Aid Society continue to be a lifeline and source of pride

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May 17, 2023 13:48

45 AID 2023 Dinner 13473. Photo John Rifkin

The baton is falling to us to remember the Holocaust

Each Yom HaShoah we are reminded of the dwindling numbers of survivors and our duty to them

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April 18, 2023 09:18

The baton is falling to us to remember the Holocaust

Farewell letter from Auschwitz reminds us why we remember

Writing in the shadow of a gas chamber, Chaim Herman penned his final goodbye to his wife, knowing that he would not live to see her again

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January 27, 2023 10:50

Farewell letter from Auschwitz reminds us why we remember

Our hearts are broken, but Zigi's spirit and his message will live on

He was full of love and, despite everything, joy

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January 18, 2023 16:33

Our hearts are broken, but Zigi's spirit and his message will live on

British Holocaust survivors will acutely feel the loss of the Queen

HET Chief Executive Karen Pollock CBE pays tribute to the Queen

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September 9, 2022 14:34

LOHHEIDE, GERMANY - JUNE 26: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh lay a wreath at the inscription wall during their visit of the concentration camp memorial at Bergen-Belsen on June 26, 2015 in Lohheide, Germany. The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh viewed the grave of Anne Frank, before they met two survivors of the camp and as well as two liberators. This is the final day of a four day state visit, which is their first to Germany since 2004. (Photo by Julian Stratenschulte - Pool/Getty Images)

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