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Holocaust Testimony UK works with partner institutions across Britain and beyond to share interviews with Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazism who faced discrimination, antisemitism, segregation, persecution, violence and displacement. Many built new lives when they came to the UK, before and after WW2. We also share interviews with rescuers and liberators.   

 

This initiative of the UK Government and The Association of Jewish Refugees was created to advance Holocaust education by providing user-friendly access to thousands of recorded interviews, and to honour the legacy of the Holocaust survivors and refugees who have courageously shared their testimonies with different institutions over the last 45 years.   

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"I believe firmly and profoundly that whoever listens to a witness becomes a witness, so those who hear us, those who read us, must continue to bear witness for us. Until now, they're doing it with us. At a certain point in time, they will do it for all of us."

— Elie Wiesel

"The whole reason that we have this interview is to let future generations know what kind of life of we had so they should have a better life, not have to suffer through all the traumas we had to suffer. As time goes on the memory of those days and the importance of it will dim, and this programme will help keep it in people's minds and hopefully let future generations have a better life. It should be a better world."

— Arnold Weinberg

"For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living."

— Elie Wiesel

"The distribution of life chances in this world is often a very random bus"

— Professor Peter Pultzer

"… for too many years I was too busy, I didn’t have the confidence in talking. Now I don’t mind talking and if I don’t do it now who will do it? That’s why I’m doing it. And hopefully, hopefully that it does make some sense in people’s future thinking."

— Harry Spiro BEM

"I think it's important for future generations to know what happened and to learn from first hand, from people’s experiences and that should never happen again. But I get a bit depressed when I read the news— there are comments and views expressed which are comparable to those expressed in the 30s by the Nazis. So in some ways we haven't learned, we haven't moved on. So I think that's why, that's why it's important that the Holocaust should not be forgotten."

— Ivan Shaw MBE

"We are the last witnesses. If we don't give a testimony, we don't say what happened and what we remember that happened, would be very bad, because there are so many Holocaust denials nowadays. There are more and more of them. We cannot afford to, for them to take over from what happened to those who perished. We owe it to them. We owe it to the ones who died terrible deaths. Six millions. One million children. Innocent people."

— Lili Pohlmann MBE

"I think it’s so important to know that there were some very decent, genuine, good people. Unfortunately, not enough. They risked their lives, they put them self out, and they - If we are here today thanks to them. There’s no other. And that’s why I just feel, the story is important."

— Zita Kahan

"That the future generation should know and should never, never happen again. That is important."

— Renee Bornstein BEM

"…it is important for the future generations, to know what went on. How we lost many, many members of our family. How, how we lost six million Jews."

— Marcel Anisfield

"… very important for people to realise what hatred can do, and I'm all against any wars and I feel that people should really spend more time, er, looking after each other and try to understand each other."

— Alicia Adams

"…so many of them didn't make it. Lottie Krakow didn't make it, the girl I loved. A lot of the other pupils didn't make it. So, I feel it's important to tell the story so far as I know it so that people should understand, these were innocent children, totally innocent children who did not understand why this was being done to them."

— Eli Abt

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