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Arek was just ten years old at the outbreak of the Second World War. By the time he was liberated by the Soviet army from the ghetto at Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia on 8 May 1945, he had endured suffering and brutality of unimaginable magnitude.
Mar 3, 2024 · By the time he was liberated from Theresienstadt aged just 15, Arek was an orphan. His parents, siblings and over 70 members of his family had been murdered, most at the Chelmno death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Arek came to the UK in August 1945 with a group of 300 children brought to Windermere in the Lake District.
Arek Hersh was born in Poland in 1928 and was just 10-years-old when his Polish hometown, Sieradz, fell under German occupation. He was eleven when the Nazis kicked down the door of his family home and took him away to his first concentration camp.
Jan 27, 2015 · Arek Hersh is returning to Auschwitz, where he was imprisoned as a boy, 70 years after it was liberated. More than a million people died in the death camp during the Second World War.
Jul 13, 2019 · We spent the day at the inspiring Centre, where we talked to Arek Hersh MBE, a ninety-year-old Holocaust survivor whose remarkable story saw him endure the horrors of Auschwitz. There’s something about the scale and savagery of the Holocaust that will forever render it impossible to truly comprehend.
Jan 21, 2020 · Arek was born in Sieradz, Poland, in 1928. One of five children, he was just 11 years old when he was taken from the Lodz Ghetto to Otoschno, near Poznan in Western Poland.
Jan 27, 2012 · Arek Hersh, a surivivor of the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz, talks to Metro about his experiences as part of Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations.
