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Ministers hear survivor’s testimony in packed Holocaust Memorial event in Parliament

Parliament’s Speaker toured a cutting edge Holocaust exhibition in the heart of the parliamentary estate

January 15, 2025 16:57
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Karen Pollock CBE speaking at a packed Holocaust Educational Trust event in Parliament. Credit: HET
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Over 200 people, including two cabinet ministers, attended an event on Tuesday in Parliament organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27.

95-year-old Auschwitz survivor Renee Salt BEM moved the packed room to silence and tears as she shared her harrowing story of survival.

Born in Poland in 1929, her “normal, happy life” all changed “when the Nazis invaded in September 1939. We were forced out of our home so that the German officers could move in”.

In 1942 Salt’s sister along with other children were taken during a roundup. She herself narrowly avoided detection and was deported with her parents to the Łódź Ghetto.