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Shoah survivor and daughter honoured

October 21, 2015 12:09
Lady Kohn (right) and her daughter

By

Josh Jackman,

Josh Jackman

1 min read

A Holocaust survivor and her daughter have received the Freedom of the City of London for their work educating tens of thousands of schoolchildren about the Shoah.

Lady Zahava Kohn, who spent 20 months in Bergen-Belsen, travels around Britain with Hephzibah Rudofsky to present secondary school children with the perspectives of a survivor and her daughter.

Ms Rudofsky said she felt "a sense of pride" to be part of the ceremony, which takes place in London's Guildhall.

"Being recognised with my mother makes this more significant. The schools programme is about my mother's story - an ordinary family thrown into extraordinary circumstances during the war. Together we have been speaking in schools around the UK, and in Germany, for the past six years. We have addressed thousands of students from diverse ethnicities and religions.