(JEWISH GROUP) 'We're in difficult times', says Holocaust survivor
"I don't really want another Steven Frank in 70 or 80 years time to be standing in front of a whole lot of schoolchildren to tell them what it was like being a Jew in Britain in 2026."
Steven Frank BEM was one of approximately 150 survivors out of 14,000 Jewish children who passed through the Theresienstadt concentration camp, in occupied Czechoslovakia, during World War Two.
Once liberated, he moved with his family to England, where he has gone on to speak about the Holocaust and his experiences during more than 1,000 visits to schools across the country, including Wood Green School in Witney.
To honour his contributions, the Oxfordshire school has presented Frank with a book of personal thanks from those he has shared his story with there over the past three decades.
Born in Amsterdam in 1935 to a Dutch father and English mother, Frank was five when Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands.
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