The tracing service that is still helping Holocaust survivors find their families, 80 years later
Judy Simon was a child when she was liberated from a concentration camp in 1945. Last year she finally unearthed the truth about her family
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Judy Simon was a child when she was liberated from a concentration camp in 1945. Last year she finally unearthed the truth about her family
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.
THE Lake District Holocaust Project has secured a grant of £80,000 to help make their archives available.
Today, The Lake District Holocaust Project will be marking the 78th anniversary of when The Windermere Children landed near Carlisle in the wake of…