The Windermere Children
In this blogpost for International Children's Day Jewish Museum Intern , Mona, shares her research revealing the story of the Windermere Children.
Jews in Jamaica
In this blogpost Jewish Museum Intern , Rebecca, shares her research revealing the history of Jews in Jamaica as we celebrate Black History and the connection between Black and Jewish communities this month and beyond.
Jewish Museum London Commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day 2020, 75 Years On from the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau
The Jewish Museum London is observing the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau with a series of events running from 23 January to Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January.
Walking in the footsteps of Vrba and Wetzler, Part 3
by Zoe Hilton-Webb and Max Martel, Vrba-Wetzler memorial march participants In August 2015, a group of people from all over the world gathered to walk from Auschwitz to Zilina, in memory of the arduous journey Rudolf Vrba and Jozef Lanik undertook after escaping Auschwitz concentration camp. Below are the accounts of two young walk participants – one […]
Walking in the footsteps of Vrba and Wetzler, Part 2
by Radek Hejret, organiser of the Vrba-Wetzler memorial march As we stood at the edge of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, approximately at the place where on 7 April 1944 two Slovak Jews, Walter Rosenberg (Rudolf Vrba) and Fredie Wetzler (Jozef Lanik), hid before they escaped from Auschwitz, the seventy year old Fedor Gal, initiator of the idea […]
Walking in the footsteps of Vrba and Wetzler, Part 1
by Zoe Hilton-Webb In March 2015 Gerta Vrbova spoke at the Jewish Museum London about her first husband, Rudolf Vrba, and his escape from Auschwitz concentration camp. This talk was one of the first in a series of events leading up to a memorial march from Auschwitz to Zilina in August 2015. Over the next few […]
