Eva Clarke BEM

Eva was born in Mauthausen concentration camp, Austria, on 29th April 1945. She and her mother are the only survivors of their family, 15 members of whom were killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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Martin Stern MBE

Born in Hilversum, The Netherlands, in 1938 to my Jewish father and my non-Jewish mother, a young woman architect who had decided to marry a Jew in Nazi Germany and fled with him to The Netherlands to do so. I’m on MOTL as a survivor, for my father, life ended in Buchenwald, for my mother, with a hospital infection in Amsterdam and for my younger sister Erica and myself via Westerbork and Theresienstadt in life as survivors.

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Salomon (Jacques) Weisser BEM

I am a Holocaust child survivor. My grandfather Mordechai Eisen (Weisser) was born in Ropscize, a small town in southeastern Poland. He married Lea Betheil from Radomysl where they had 2 children. They moved again and went to live in Krakow where 6 more children were born including my father Jacob (Kuba), born on 25th May 1919. In 1929 when Mordechai was 38 years old, he moved again with the family and settled in Antwerp Belgium where he became a fruit merchant. His wife Lea sadly died in January 1933, and he subsequently married Perel Eisen (Schonback), who was a widow herself.

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Peter Lantos BEM

The year of 2024 sees the 80th anniversary of the last major chapter of the Final Solution: the deportation and mass murder of some 424,000 Hungarian Jews in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Hungary joined Nazi Germany as an ally during the Second World War in 1941

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