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Windermere Children memorial garden unveiled. Pic: photographybyward.co.uk
August 18, 2025, 12:28 pm
Windermere Boys mark 80 years since arrival with memorial garden
Arek Hersh, Harry Olmer, Jackie Young and Bela Millan were brought to the Lake District after being liberated from concentration camps
By Michelle Rosenberg
2J6B6D8 Polish President Andrzej Duda (R) seen with a survivor of the holocaust Edward Mosberg (L) as they arrive to lay a wreath during the International March of The Living. International March of The Living from KL Auschwitz to KL2 Birkenau. Over 3000 of Jews from all over the world came to Oswiecim to participate in the International March of the Living. It is a commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust. The Polish president Andrzej Duda took part in this event. (Photo by Wojciech Grabowski / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)
May 2, 2022, 11:28 am
A place that still defies articulation
Jewish News joined British survivors Arek Hersh, Eve Kugler, Harry Olmer, Mala Tribich, Alfred Garwood, Agnes Kaposi and Barbara Frankess as March of the Living returned.
By Nicole Lampert at Auschwitz
A Ukrainian refugee from Vinnytsia, is seen holding Ukrainian flag in front of the entrance gate with 'Arbeit Macht Frei' inscription during March of the Living.
April 29, 2022, 12:40 pm
‘There was smoke and a smell and I knew most of my friends were gone’
Jewish News joins survivor Arek Hersh at Auschwitz as he and a precious handful fellow survivors pass on the "torch of memory" during this week's March of the Living.
By Nicole Lampert at Auschwitz
he Duchess of Cornwall with Holocaust survivor Helen Aronson (centre) and her family, and artist Paul Benney (right) beside the portrait of Helen during an exhibition at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, of 'Seven Portraits: Surviving the Holocaust', which were commissioned by the Prince of Wales to pay tribute to Holocaust survivors. Picture date: Monday January 24, 2022.
January 26, 2022, 11:02 pm
Revealed: Seven paintings commissioned by Prince Charles of Holocaust survivors
The heir to the throne met subjects of new artworks that will forever form part of the Royal Collection
By Justin Cohen
Clara Drummond and Manfred Goldberg (credit Angel Li and BBC Studios)
January 12, 2022, 12:02 am
Prince Charles commissions artists to paint portraits of seven Shoah survivors
The project will be the subject of an hour-long programme on the BBC to be will be aired on Holocaust Memorial Day this month.
By Jewish News
The Duchess of Cambridge spent time in the Lake District with Arek Hersh and Ike Alterman
September 22, 2021, 10:31 am
Duchess of Cambridge meets Shoah survivors who found ‘paradise’ in Lake District
Kate took a boat trip on Lake Windermere with Arek Hersh and Ike Alterman, both 93, who more than 75 years ago were part of a 300-strong group known as The Windermere Children
By Jewish News Reporter
Holocaust survivors featured in Matt Writtle's book, Portraits for Posterity, which is published on 16 November
November 13, 2020, 11:47 am
Faces of survival
Photographer Matt Writtle commemorates 101 Holocaust survivors in his new book, Portraits For Posterity
By Francine Wolfisz
From left: Harry Olmer, Kacper Swietek, Arek Hersh, Tomasz Studzinski, Pascal Fischer, Sir Ben Helfgott, Marek Wrobelewski, Sam Laskier, Kuba Sprenger, Ike Alterman
January 26, 2020, 9:26 am
The Windermere Children: ‘Coming here made me feel human again’
Francine Wolfisz meets the cast and survivors portrayed in a BBC2 film exploring the incredible story of 300 Jewish orphans who were brought to Britain after the war
By Francine Wolfisz
Halsey Roscorla (third right, wearing cap) with his RAF crew
November 1, 2019, 2:33 pm
Story of pilot who flew ‘The Boys’ to new life in England told for first time
RAF pilot who flew child survivors to England never told family of role played on historic day. Archival footage broadcast 60 years later helped them piece together what happened
By Mathilde Frot
Zigi Shipper, Gabi Rolfe and Abigail Mann at the Bushey United Synagogue button count earlier this month
July 25, 2018, 4:52 pm
Communities donate 200,000 buttons for Holocaust memorial
Communities in Bushey, Watford and Elstree and Hertsmere Jewish Primary School, Radlett, were collecting for B's Buttons
By Francine Wolfisz
More than 100 volunteers at Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue came together to count 200,000 buttons for B's Buttons
April 24, 2018, 11:45 am
Synagogue collects 200,000 buttons for Holocaust project
Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue volunteers held a count for B's Buttons, a project to create a memorial for the 1.5m Jewish children murdered in the Shoah
By Francine Wolfisz
B's Buttons is a project inspired by pupils at The Lakes School, Windermere, to create a memorial to the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered in the Shoah
April 11, 2018, 6:04 pm
An idea as bright as six million buttons
Francine Wolfisz finds out about B's Buttons, a student project to create a memorial to the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered in the Shoah
By Francine Wolfisz
Arek Hersh at Auschwitz during March of the Living 2017 (Sam Churchill Photography)
August 23, 2017, 2:46 pm
Holocaust survivor to be immortalised in Leeds sculpture
Artist Frances Segelman is 'honoured and moved' after being asked to create a model of survivor Arek Hersh
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