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Students perform alongside recorded testimony of Holocaust survivor and Windermere Child Harry Olmer during the Holocaust Memorial Day tribute at the Royal Ballet School.
January 27, 2026, 7:44 pm
Students honour Windermere Child Harry Olmer in Holocaust Memorial Day performance
Multi-faith student performance marking 80 years since Windermere Children is dedicated to Holocaust survivor Harry Olmer MBE
By Annabel Sinclair
Vera Schaufeld MBE with Karen Pollock CBE, Chief Executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust
January 26, 2026, 9:27 am
This Holocaust Memorial Day, we also remember the survivors we have lost
We remember those who shared their experiences with us, as well as the six million whose voices were taken from us
By Karen Pollock CBE
Harry Olmer MBE speaking at an event at the Home office. Photo Credit: HET
January 16, 2026, 2:55 pm
It is up to us to carry Harry Olmer’s legacy onwards
Harry was in the truest sense of the word, a mensch. In his passing we have lost a friend and a guiding voice
By Karen Pollock CBE
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
Frances Segelman sculpting bust of Holocaust survivor Harry Olmer at JW3 in partnership with Yad Vashem UK Foundation. Monday 13th January 2025. Pic: Michelle Rosenberg
January 14, 2025, 2:30 pm
Frances Segelman sculpts Holocaust survivor Harry Olmer
JW3 hosts live event in partnership with Yad Vashem UK Foundation ahead of 80th anniversary of Auschwitz Birkenau liberation
By Michelle Rosenberg
Chief Rabbi, Holocaust survivor Harry Olmer MBE and HET Ambassador.
July 8, 2024, 12:10 pm
‘Outstanding young people committed to changing the world’: Chief Rabbi at Holocaust Educational Trust’s ambassador conference
Shoah survivors Manfred Goldberg, Eve Kugler and Harry Olmer join hundreds of young students determined to fight antisemitism
By Michelle Rosenberg
Pic: United Synagogue
April 25, 2023, 3:39 pm
New Holocaust memorial and garden unveiled at Bushey New Cemetery
More than a dozen survivors among the 160 people at the consecration service led by Chief Rabbi.
By Michelle Rosenberg
From left to right with actors behind them: Chaim (Harry) Olmer / played by Kacper Swietek, Arek Hersh/Tomas Studzinski, Sir Ben Helfgott/ Pascal Fischer (in front of Ben), Sam Laskier (sadly died August 2020)/ Marek Wroblewski, Ike Alterman/ Kuba Sprenger, Tim McInnerny played the part of Leonard Montefiore, Ian Glen - Jock Lawrence, Thomas Kretschmann - Oscar Friedmann, Romola Garai - Marie Paneth (The Lake District Holocaust Project.)
March 8, 2023, 10:52 am
Holocaust survivor portrayed in film The Windermere Children to receive OBE
Harry Olmer was one of 300 children liberated from concentration camps and evacuated to the Lake District in July 1945; the BBC film about the group was shortlisted for a BAFTA
By Jewish News Reporter
The Windermere Children to be screened on Holocaust Memorial Day in Windermere
January 13, 2023, 12:46 pm
Windermere Children return for Holocaust Memorial Day
The award-winning drama is to be screened in the cinema where the children watched films in 1945
By Brigit Grant
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
(Sam Churchill Photography)
September 20, 2021, 12:04 pm
Young children meet Holocaust survivors in trailblazing event
Five survivors met more than 80 children as young as three at the 'Tomorrow's Testimony' event, which encouraged the youngsters to become a 'witness for life'.
By Josh Salisbury
Eyal Booker with Mala Tribich
July 21, 2021, 4:12 pm
Video project twinning Shoah survivor with celebs wins two awards
March of the Living UK’s ‘Meet the Survivors’ campaign with Frank PR agency received two gongs at the UK Content Awards, sharing testimony of five survivors to thousands of people
By Jewish News Reporter
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge meeting Sir Ben Helfgott during the UK Holocaust Memorial Day Commemorative Ceremony at Central Hall in Westminster, which was broadcast live on the BBC. (Photo credit: Chris Jackson/PA Wire via Jewish News)
June 24, 2021, 4:05 pm
First ever Holocaust Survivor Day recognises their ‘extraordinary contributions’
Inaugural event was held to 'celebrate their lives they built in response to the Holocaust'
By Josh Salisbury
Robert Peston, ITV’s political editor, met Lily Ebert, a 97-year-old survivor.
April 8, 2021, 10:02 am
Ronnie O’Sullivan, Matt Lucas and Robert Peston hear Shoah survivor testimony
For Yom HaShoah, March of the Living pairs prominent figures from entertainment, the media and sport with Holocaust survivors in a series of one-to-one interviews
By Josh Salisbury
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
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