Remember: Holocaust Survivors

Charlotte Lang. Jewish Refugee. Came to England with the Kinder Transport.
Zigi Shipper born Poldand 1930 was brught up by his grandparents. He survived the Lodz ghetto and Auschwitz and the 'Death March', Zigi was liberated on 3rd May 1945, and came to the UK in 1947. He regularly shares his testimony in schools across the country.
Anka Bergman (1917-2013) Born in Trebechovice in which is now the Czech Republic. After spending time at Auschwitz, Anka was transferred to Mauthausen concentration camp to work. Here she gave birth to a baby girl, Eva who weighed 3lbs. Three days later American troops liberated the camp.
Karin Lawson born in Berlin 1926. She says her most frighten experience was Kristalnatch 9 November 1938. From 1940 until 1950 Karin was a German POW and was in 21 different internments camps in Russia.
Ben Helfgott MBE, born Lodz Poland 1929. He survived two labour camps and three concntration camps. In 1956 and 1960 he captained the British Olympic Weightlifting teams.
Rev. Bernd Koschland, born Furth Germany January 1931, came to the UK on a Kindertransport in April 1939. He spent 12 years as a Minister at various Synagogues, until entering teaching. Today he is the Jewish Chaplin at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
Bettine Le Beau. Born in Belgium. Hidden child in Nazi Occupied France. Gurs, French Concentration Camp.
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, born in Poland 17 July 1925. She is a renowned cellist, and a surviving member of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz.
Barbara Stimler, born Poland February 1927, was in the Lodz Ghetto, and Auschwitz. On the death march she escaped by hiding under a stack of hay. She came to the UK in August 1946
Charlotte Lang aged 2 with her maternal grand parents in Modling 1937. They were later killed in Treblinka
Clare Parker born Budapest,Hungary 1932. Auschwitz and Mauthausen Camp survivor.
Clare Parker on a visit to Mauthausen Camp meets the American who liberated her.
Rudi Oppenheimer (82) born in Berlin. His family moved to Amerstam in 1936, and when the Germans invaded Holland in 1940, he and his family was taken to Westerbrook camp and then to Bergen Belson. As his sister had a British passport the family were classified as Exchange Jews, people the Nazis wanted to exchange against Germans held by the Allies.
Eva Clarke born in in Mauthausen concentration camp. She weighed 3 lbs, and was liberated with her mother Anka Bergman a few days later by American troops. To-day Eva is a Holocaust educator.
Eve Kugler, born in Germany, was 7 years old when Kristallnact - the night of broken glass took place.
Evy Meyer born Brussels, Belgium.
Eve Oppenheimer born 1936. She, her two siblings and parents were 'exchange' Jews and sent to Bergen Belsen. Eve was born in England and had spent the first three months of her life in London.
Freddie Knoller MBE. Born in Vienna, in 1921.He escaped the Nazi’s by fleeing to Belgium but was interned in a Belgian refugee camp until 1940. He escaped prison and obtained false ID papers as a Frenchman from Alsace, and joined the French Resistance before being betrayed and arrested again. He was liberated from Bergen Belsen on 6 October 1945. Freddie has written two books on his experiences, Desperate Journey and Living with the Enemy.
Gerald Leyens, born April 1926, Germany. In his home town of Erkelenz he witnessed Kristallmatch, the Synagogue burnt down, and the house his family were sharing was badly danmaged. Gerald came to England as one of the Kindertransport June 1939.
Genia Schwarzmann born Radom Poland 1934 was hidden with a non Jewish family in Warsaw. She had false papers of a dead girl. After the war went to Palatine on the first legal ship to arrive in Haifa that had 12 child Holocaust survivors.
Helen Aronson born in Poland 1927. One of few Lodz Ghetto survivors.
Harry Bibring, born December 1925 in Vienna. He was part of the Kindertransport, arriving in London on 15 March 1939
Herman Hirschberger MBE. Born Germany July 1926, and came to the UK on a Kindertransport in March 1939. His parents died in Auschwitz.
Henri Obstfeld, born Amsterdam 1940. Aged 2 he went into hiding wth a non Jewish couple in Arnhem. He was liberated from Harskamp in 1945.
Ilse Eaton, born in Germany 1922. Arrived from Dusseldorf aged 17 in Britain as a refugee in January 1939.
John Dobai - saved by Raoul Wallenberg
Jack Scott (88), German born. Spent time in an internment camps, and prisons, with false papers. Parents killed in Auschwitz.
Joan Salter, Child Survivor. Born Brussels in 1940 to Polish parents.
Leon Ettinger, born Vienna. Arrived in England on the Kindertransport in 1938.
Lily Ebert MBE born in Hungary 29 December 1923. Auschwitz Survivor. Author of 'Lily's Promise'. Lily has three children, 10 grandchildren and 34 great grandchildren
Marcel Ladenheim, born Paris June 1939. Marcel survived the war in France, being hidden after his father was sent to Auschwitz in 1941
Marie Obuchowski, born in Brussels. French concentration camp survivor.
Bob (Berek) Obuchowski, Lodz Ghetto and Auschwittz survivor.
Tatto of Bob (Berek) Obuchowski, Lodz Ghetto, & Auchwitz survivor.
Rose Coten (85) Born near Warsaw, Poland. Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, liberated whilst in Bergen Belsen.
Ron Leaton. Cracow Ghetto and Camp Survivor shows his war time ID.
Family photos of Ron Leaton Cracow Ghetto and Auschwitz survivor.
Ron Leaton Cracow Ghetto and Auschwitz survivor
Sabine Miller Born Warsaw Poland (1922-2018) Sabina suffered typhus as a teenager in the Warsaw ghetto in 1940. She was unconscious for 18 days. When Sabine awoke her parents were gone and she would never see them again.
Toby Biber, born Mielec Poland 1925. Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow, Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen survivor
Toby Biber, Holocaust Survivor, holding an old family photo, and a photo of herself at the grave of her older sister who died 8 days after the liberation of Bergen Belsen
Victor Greenberg, Born August 1929 in Majdan, now in Slovakia. His family were among the few to escape when the entire Jewish population of the town was massacred. He was a prisoner in Auschwitz, Matthausen and Gunkirchen, where is was liberated by the Americans.
Jurek Cynk, born in Poland 1925. Auschwitz and Camp Survivor. Joined Polish army after war.
Jurek Cynk, born in Poland 1925. Auschwitz and Camp Survivor, holding his war time prayer book
Jurek Cynk, born in Poland 1925. Auschwitz and Camp Survivor, shows his diary of 1945.
Jurek Cynk, born in Poland 1925. Auschwitz and Camp Survivor. Tatoo 135649
Gena Turgel MBE, born in Kraków in 1923. She married a British soldier, Norman Turgel, after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. She nursed a dying Anne Frank just days prior to liberation. Gina died in June 2018
Ivor Perl born 1932, Hungary. Unlike five of his siblings and mother, Ivor survived Auschwitz. He came to England in 1945 and became a succesful dress manufactorer. He has four children, six grandchildren and one great grandson.
Irka Reichman born Lwow Poland 6 April 1933. Known as a rat child Irka survived the Lwow and Warsaw ghetto. She has three children and nine grandchildren.
Jack Kagan, born in Novogrodek, Belorussia. He escaped the ghetto and joined the Jewish partisans fighting the Nazis who had invaded his home town.
Joe Perl born 1930 in Czechoslovakia, was in seven concentration camps including Auschwitz. He was liberated from Buchenwald. He has spent 20 years educating people about the Holocaust.
Freda Wineman, born in France 1923. Auschwitz and Terezin camp survivor.
Dr John Goldsmith, born Dusseldorf, Germany 1924. In 1933, he and his mother fled to Holland, then to the UK in '37. On his 16th birthday, he was interned and sent to Canada. John became a kidney consultant at the Royal Liverpool Hospital. He has 3 children and 9 grandchildren.

The work shown here is from a personal on going project: Remember: Holocaust Survivors. It is a series of close up portraits of people who survived the Nazi persecution of Hitler. I have done a few other projects on Holocaust Survivors, my main reason for starting this one earlier this year, is simple – those that survived the Holocaust are getting older and fewer. The survivors and those that were killed cannot just become an historical statistic, what happened to them must be remembered as a means of education against prejudice, and intolerance, so that we all as individuals and nations can be more understanding, accepting and tolerant of each others differences; be they religious, nationality, ethnic, gender, or sexuality.

In 2020 it was the 75th anniversary of the Holocaust, which ended with the liberation of the concentration camps in 1945. The first major camp, Majdanek, in Poland was liberated in July 1944, and the most notorious, Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviets on the 25th January 1945.

Nine images from this series formed a poster, and was accepted as part of Art Below Diamond Jubilee celebration for display at Bond Street underground station (Jubilee line, platform 3 northbound) for two weeks, during June.

The poster was also part of a group exhibition at The Underground Gallery, Charring Cross Station, London.

Project supported by Leica Store Mayfair www.leica-storemayfair.co.uk.