Main event to commemorate Holocaust in the UK also hears from survivors of numerous genocides since the moment world warAt the main event marking Holocaust Memorial Day in the UK on Wednesday,there were many moving words spoken, but it was the cheerful insistence of Zigi Shipper that “I was always lucky all my life” which left many in the Guildhall discreetly dabbing at their eyes.
By the time Shipper was liberated in May 1945, and by a circle of British tanks surrounding the barge onto which he was approximately to be loaded – it was to be towed out to sea and then blown up with all Jews packed into it – he was just 15.
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Source: theguardian.com