Marking 80 years since its liberation, a new exhibition presents some remarkable items gathered by a family who survived Bergen-Belsen
Read MoreOn the 19th March 2025, Hephzibah visited St Marylebone School to present to the Year 9 students. “Their warm welcome and keen questioning was a credit to the school and its community.”
Read MoreIn October 2024, Hephzibah was honoured to speak at Tate Britain as part of the Our Local Heroes exhibition, an event run and arranged by the charity Uniting Friends.
Read MoreSMSJ are very fortunate that Hepzibah agrees to return to us every year to tell us about her mother’s experiences during the Holocaust. Louka in Y8 spoke to Hephzibah about her experiences.
Read MoreHephzibah Rudofsky spoke as a member of the Second Generation at the HMD event at JW3. 26th January 2024.
Read MoreIt was an enormous honour to welcome Hephzibah Rudofsky back to Lambrook this week to talk to our Year 7 pupils, following Holocaust Memorial Day last Saturday.
“It was such an amazing talk. I was utterly gripped. I found it so incredible, there were so many twists which meant Zahava and her family survived.” Year 7 Pupil
“I thought that it was so interesting and very informative. It displayed the reality of Jewish people’s lives in war… I thought it made such a difference to have a personal story.” Year 7 pupil
Read More“This talk was particularly interesting as we were able to make links to things we are learning in our A-Level course, where we cover the atrocities committed by the Nazis, although, Hephziba’s account added unique and valuable context that will be beneficial, not only in our studies but also in paying respects and honouring those who suffered in the Holocaust.”
Read MoreIn the lead up to Holocaust Memorial Day, King Solomon High School hosted an interschool memorial event, in which I was fortunate enough to attend. Descendant of a Holocaust Survivor, Hephzibah Rudofsky, educated attendees in her family’s history through recounting the personal story of her family’s experiences during World War Two.
Read MoreIt was a great honour to welcome Hephzibah Rudofsky back to Lambrook this week to talk to our Year 7 pupils ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day.
Hephzibah’s talk, ‘Remembering the Holocaust’ was her incredibly striking family story, and one that captivated Year 7 from start to finish. She told the moving story of three generations and the remarkable journey that her family had during the War and in surviving the Holocaust.
Hephzibah Rudofsky, daughter of Holocaust survivor, Lady Zahava Kohn MBE, returned to Latymer on Monday, 23 January, to speak to our Year 9 students. The talk was one of the events organised to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2023.
Read MoreZahava Kohn never defined herself as a Holocaust survivor. For most of her life, she never spoke about her wartime experiences. Her parents had always encouraged Zahava and her brother Jehudi to look forwards – to be optimistic and build a happy life ahead.
Read MoreHolocaust survivor Lady Zahava Kohn MBE has died one week shy of her 87th birthday.
Read More“An amazing opportunity arose last week, for all budding historians of St Marylebone school. Hephzibah the daughter of Zahava came to talk to us about her mother’s experience during WW2 and the traumatic events that she encountered, simply because she was Jewish.”
Read more about the visit here.
St Marylebone CE School Students with Hephzibah
On Thursday, 27th January 2022, Hephzibah visited the Lambrook School where she delivered her remarkable “Surviving the Holocaust” story with the Year 8 pupils.
Read more about her visit in the Lambrook News here.
Hephzibah shares Holocaust artefacts with the pupils at Lambrook School
Film that Hephzibah was asked to make as part of the Holocaust Memorial Day online ceremony for Hackney Council.
