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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
November 25, 2025, 5:19 pm
A legacy worth its weight in gold: Sir Ben Helfgott Day marked in the Lake District
On what would have been his 96th birthday, Lake Windermere school celebrates Olympian who represented Britain after liberation from the Nazi camps
By Michelle Rosenberg
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
Sala (Anna Maciejewska), Arek (Tomasz Studzinski), Juliusz (Lukasz Zieba), Ike (Kuba Sprenger), Sam (Marek Wrobelewski), Salek (Jakub Jankiewicz), Ben (Pascal Fischer), Chaim (Kacper Swietek) - (C) Wall to Wall/ZDF - Photographer: Helen Sloan.
January 21, 2020, 11:28 am
Windermere Children cast ‘overwhelmed’ at meeting Holocaust survivors
Tim McInnerny, who plays philanthropist Leonard Montefiore, 'grateful' to be in BBC film, after meeting those brought to the UK after liberation from concentration camps
By Jewish News Reporter
Robert Rinder was overwhelmed to meet Sir Ben Helfgott at Schlieben, a sub-camp of Buchenwald, where his grandfather was a forced labourer during the Second World War
August 14, 2018, 10:46 am
Watch: Judge Rinder moved to tears by Ben Helfgott in Who Do You Think You Are?
The pair were united at Schlieben, a sub-camp of Buchenwald, where TV star's grandfather endured forced labour
By Francine Wolfisz
Programme Name: Who Do You Think You Are? - TX: n/a - Episode: Generics (No. Generics) - Picture Shows: in Whitechapel, London - (C) Wall to Wall - Photographer: Stephen Perry
August 9, 2018, 11:57 am
Judge Rinder: ‘Who Do You Think You Are was a total gift to my family’
Television star discovers his grandfather Morris Malenicky lost seven relatives in the Holocaust
By Francine Wolfisz
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