NB: This event took place 20 February, 2025

Each year, Lansons Team Farner marks Holocaust Memorial Day by hosting a very special and rare opportunity to hear from Holocaust Survivors and their families.

This year, Holocaust Survivor, Mala Tribich MBE joined us to share her testimony. Mala was born in Poland, and as a child experienced the Nazi invasion in 1939, becoming a slave labourer in several concentration camps. In 1947, after surviving typhus, Mala reunited with her brother in England. She learnt English, attended secretarial college and gained a degree in Sociology from the University of London. Today, Mala and her husband have two children and three grandchildren.

We are incredibly honoured to have Mala with us to share her important story.

With thanks to Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) who make these events possible. We invite you to make a contribution to HET to enable them to keep sharing the stories of survivors.

Resources: 

To learn more about the Holocaust, we have curated a list of resources for further reading and watching. Do let us know what you think. 

Books to read:

• Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland – Christopher Browning
• Lily’s Promise – Lily Ebert and Dov Forman
• The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
• Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E Frankl
• The Escape Artist – Johnathan Freedland
• Return to Auschwitz – Kitty Hart Moxon
• Born Survivors – Wendy Holden
• When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit – Judith Kerr
• If This Is A Man/The Truce - Primo Levi
• Maus – Art Spiegelman
• Night – Eli Wiesel

Films to watch:

• One Life (2023)
• Survivors: Portraits of the Holocaust (BBC iPlayer 2022)
• Saved by a Stranger: George, Peter and Claire (2021)
• The Windemere Children (2020)
• Naked Among Wolves (2015)
• Son of Saul (2015)
• The Book Thief (2013)
• Defiance (2008)
• The Counterfeiters (2007)
• The Pianist (2002)
• Schindler’s List (1993)