Every picture tells a story...
SENT to a concentration camp when he was just 11 years old, Manfred Goldberg will never forget the devastation two years later when his little brother was taken away by the Nazis.
“The little children were permitted to stay in the camp while I went out to work. One day we returned and these children could not be found. Herman was nine. I can still hear my mother’s heartbreaking wails,” says the 91-year-old, whose entire family was taken from their home in Germany during World War Two.
Manfred’s unimaginable story is being told as part of this impactful documentary for Holocaust Memorial Day today, which follows a project spearheaded by Prince Charles to commission portraits of seven Holocaust survivors for display at Buckingham Palace.
Among the other powerful stories, we hear from Rachel Levy, now 91, who tells how she was forced to walk on a Death March for 21 days as a young teenager, with people dying all around her from hunger and thirst.
Survivor Zigi Shipper, 92, recalls: “At the camp, they separated people left and right. Women hung onto their babies. And if they couldn’t separate them they shot the baby. I just couldn’t understand it.”
Anita Lasker Wallfisch, 96, who survived only because she could play the cello for the Nazis, says: “No one who wasn’t there could ever understand what it was like. You don’t have to suffer with us, it’s what you are doing now that’s important.”
Prince Charles says: “It’s so deeply moving. They are remarkable people we must always honour and recall.”