Welcome to Holocaust Matters
Noemie Lopian and Derek Niemann
Interviewed on WW2 TV
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Renee Bornstein
Renee Bornstein (wife of Ernst Israel Bornstein), Holocaust Survivor, awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) for services to Holocaust education and commemoration (June 2021).
Upcoming Talks
- 4th October
Hillside School
Chesterfield High School - 5th October
Merchants Girl School - 12th October
Renee Cassin @ JW3 - 25th October
Oxford Union
- 26th October
Cockfosters Synagogue - 27th October
International History Students and Historians Group
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Inspired by The Long Night, the memoirs of Ernst Israel Bornstein, a Holocaust Survivor
Featured Excerpts
Find out about the seven camps Ernst survived
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Ernst’s life story
Ernst Israel Bornstein was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1922. He was the oldest of four children. He was educated in Jewish schools and was an talented student who spoke German, Yiddish and Polish. He was incarcerated in seven concentration camps, enduring the infamous “death march” until finally being liberated by American soldiers near Lake Starnberg in Bavaria on 30 April 1945. His parents and two younger sisters perished at Auschwitz…
About Holocaust Matters
Holocaust Matters is an interactive educational tool for anyone interested in the Holocaust including schools and those with a professional or personal research interest. It is run by the family of Holocaust survivor Dr Ernst Israel Bornstein to showcase excerpts of his memoir ‘The Long Night’ which tells of his miraculous survival from seven Nazi labour and death camps during World War II…
“You should read this crucial testimony. It is a terrifying personal account of an unspeakable clinical horror, all the more powerful for being told with remarkable self-restraint.”
— Jonathan Dimbley, Writer and Broadcaster
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