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Joanna Millan, 81, were among the 300 Jewish orphans flown to the Lake District at the end of the Second World War, and among them was Rob Rinder's grandad Morris Malenicky
It was 5am when Rob Rinder touched down in Tel Aviv. The airport, usually bustling with life, was eerily quiet – “a ghost town”. He headed towards Sderot, a city by the Gazan border, just an hour away. “The massacre was so close to everyone in Israel – not just emotionally, but physically, too,” he says.
Rob Rinder, 45, (pictured) was born into a Jewish family and received an MBE in 2021 - along with his mother Angela Cohen - in recognition of their services to Holocaust education.
Strictly Coming Dancing professional Oksana hadn't been able to contact her family in Ukraine and didn't know whether they had made it across the border, writes ROB RINDER.
BBC My Family, the Holocaust & Me: Judge Robert Rinder's real story of his Jewish family's tragic history walesonline.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from walesonline.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Robert Rinder, star of ITV’s Judge Rinder, has been awarded an MBE for his services to Holocaust education and awareness in the Queen's Birthday Honours list 2021.