Holocaust survivors living around the borough have been captured on camera for a unique exhibition, Portraits For Posterity, now on display at the Jewish Cultural Centre in Golders Green until March 18. For more information about the exhibition visit www.portraitsforposterity.com

Portraits For Posterity
  • Bettine Le Beau, originally from Antwerp, Belgium, says:“Always be proud of your origin and identity, but respect and show tolerance to all mankind.”
  • Totteridge resident Freddie Knoller: For many years I have been lecturing to school students throughout Great Britain about my life under the Nazis. We must not ever forget what the Nazis did to Jews and others in the tragic period 1933-1945.
  • Polish born Harry Olmer says: “The horrors of the Second World War, especially the genocide of the Holocaust, should never be forgotten. People’s memories seem very short, and genocidal horrors are still happening now.”
  • German-born Jack Scott fled his homeland to France, where he joined the French resistance. He then made his way to North Africa, where he joined the British Army and volunteered for the Commandos.
  • Aged five-and-half-months Austrian Jackie Young was taken from his mother Elsa, who was at once deported to Minsk, where she was killed. At nine months he was sent to Theresienstadt (Terezin), but survived.
  • One night Polish police and Nazi soldiers came to take 12-year-old Jan Goldberger away from his parents and sent him to Plaszow labour camp. In late 1944 Jan was transported to Buchenwald and then to Schlieben, before ending up at Theresienstadt.
  • Jerzy Herszberg says: “It is virtually impossible for an average person brought up in this country to visualise the full horror of a concentration camp.
  • Mala Tribich was born in Piotrkow-Trybunalski, Poland, and held with her family in Piotrkow ghetto until 1942. In November 1944 she was deported, with the remaining Jewish women from Piotrkow, to Ravensbruck and then Bergen-Belsen.
  • With his mother, brothers and sisters, Moshe Nurtman was sent to Kozienice concentration camp in 1941. His entire family were eventually killed, while Moshe ended up at Theresienstadt where, on 1 May 1945, he was liberated.
  • Bergen-Belsen survivor and Hendon resident Renee Salt says: “One person can make a difference.”
  • Polish born Rubin Katz says: “Although some forward strides have been made, the world has yet to fully learn what intolerance and scapegoating can lead to.”
  • Polish-born Sam Pivnik says: A whole community rich in Jewish heritage and culture has been lost forever. Guard your freedom and never forget.
  • Solly Irving, born in Poland, says: “I hope and pray that the human race will never witness such experiences again”.
  • Susan Pollack says: Because I was there, I speak for those who can’t. The great evil that pervaded so many minds in a civilized country destroyed more than fifty members of my family.
  • Trude Levi says: We were born by accident with the colour, culture, civilisation, and religion, therefore we have no right to think that we are better than others. We are all individuals and responsible for how we behave towards our fellow humans.

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