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96-year-old Holocaust survivor to hold UK talks for first time
The long-time educator talks at dozens of venues in America every year but this will be his first in the UK
January 29, 2024 11:40
By, Daniel Ben-David
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The long-time educator talks at dozens of venues in America every year but this will be his first in the UK
January 29, 2024 11:40By, Daniel Ben-David
One of the world’s leading Holocaust educators and survivors, Ben Midler, will be coming to London to hold educational talks at three venues.
Ben, 96, has come from America to speak at Brighton College on February 1 at 8:30am, at St Paul’s School on February 2 at 10am, and at The Landsby in Stanmore on January 30 at 10am.
At The Landsby, a luxury retirement community, Ben will be signing copies of his memoirs-autobiography, ‘The Life of a Child Survivor’ written in 1990, which documents his early experiences and survival.
Born in 1928 in Bialystok, Poland, Ben was 12 years old when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Between the ages of 15 to 17, he was imprisoned in six Nazi concentration camps, and ended up being the only person from his family to survive the Second World War. It was in Auschwitz-Birkenau that Ben’s arm was tattooed with his inmate number, and where he narrowly escaped death or medical experiments by the infamous Nazi-doctor Dr Kosef Menegle by standing on his toes to look taller and older than he was.
