Holocaust Memorial Day

All 4^th Year pupils took part in Holocaust Memorial Day by watching a live streamed webcast.

Holocaust survivor, Mala Tribich told her unforgettable testimony of what happened to her and her family in 1939. Mala and her family were taken to their local Polish ghetto, where she never saw her mother or sister again. Mala became a slave labourer until November 1944, when the remaining Jews were deported. Mala was then separated from her father and brother and together with Ann was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. After about 10 weeks they were transported in cattle trucks to Bergen-Belsen where conditions were appalling and Mala contracted typhus. Three months later she was sent, with a large group of children, to Sweden where she spent nearly two years. Not expecting any of her family to be alive, Mala was surprised to receive a letter from her brother Ben in England, the only other member of her close family to have survived.

It was a moving account and an opportunity to understand history from someone who lived it and is passionate about passing on her story.