Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 →
Hephzibah Rudofsky spoke as a member of the Second Generation at the HMD event at JW3. 26th January 2024.
Read More‘Remembering the Holocaust’ – a moving and inspirational talk at Lambrook School →
It 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 MoreHolocaust Survivor's Story - Article from Young Reporter →
In 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 More‘Remembering the Holocaust’ – a moving and inspirational talk
It 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.
Holocaust Memorial Day 2023 at Latymer Upper School →
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 MoreLady Zahava Kohn Obituary from the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) Journal →
Zahava 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 Kohn dies at 86 - Article from the Jewish Chronicle →
Holocaust survivor Lady Zahava Kohn MBE has died one week shy of her 87th birthday.
Read MoreHephzibah Rudofsky invited to speak at the St Marylebone CE School
“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
Hephzibah visits Lambrook School to participate in the Holocaust Memorial Day talk and workshop for Upper School
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
Holocaust Memorial Day 2021
Film that Hephzibah was asked to make as part of the Holocaust Memorial Day online ceremony for Hackney Council.
Hackney hears from Rabbis and survivors for Holocaust Memorial Day 2021
Holocaust survivors shared their stories in an online memorial event to remember the atrocities committed under the Nazi regime and in genocides around the world.
Read more about the memorial day in the Hackney Gazette here.
“Be the light in the darkness”
Hackney marks Holocaust Memorial Day.
Read more about it in the Hackney Citizen here.
Zahava Kohn is awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List – October 2020
“We are delighted that survivors and refugees of the Holocaust have been recognised. The honours rightly recognise these incredible individuals and their contribution to our society. Lady Zahava Kohn receives an MBE while Renie Inow is given a BEM.” - Centre for Holocaust Education
Zahava receives an MBE at St. James’ Palace
"The BAG from Hell"
This is an article published in the Jewish News on the 27th January 2020 to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Hephzibah Rudofsky was asked to write about the handing down of artefacts.
Click the image below to read the article in PDF.
Hephzibah Rudofsky speaks at the Holocaust Memorial Day at The Jewish Museum
Holocaust survivors Eva Schloss and Jackie Young and child of a survivor, Hephzibah Rudofsky share their testimonies and discuss the impact of the Holocaust on their lives, 75 years on.
See the event here.
Mayor of Camden, Eva Schloss, Hephzibah Rudofsky, Jackie Young and Thamar Barnet .Jewish Museum, 23rd January 2020