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Holocaust Memorial Day takes place every year on 27th January to commemorate the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi Persecution and in genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. The date, 27th January marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp.
Join us on Thursday 20th February to hear a first-hand testimony from Mala Tribich MBE, a Survivor of the Holocaust as we mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2025. Mala shares her experience so we can understand the impact of the Holocaust on the modern world, and the devastating effects of ongoing conflicts around the world today.
This is a live event, with the option to attend online, or in person at our London offices.
Mala Tribich was born in 1930 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland. After the Nazi invasion in 1939, her family fled but returned to endure life in the ghetto. Separated from loved ones through deportations, she cared for her young cousin after losing her mother and sister. When the ghetto was liquidated, Mala became a slave labourer, later sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp and then to Bergen-Belsen, where she contracted typhus. After surviving appalling conditions, she recovered in a children’s hospital.
In March 1947, 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.