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Lily Ebert speaking on Yom HaShoah
Equally poignant was the testimony of Auschwitz survivor and one of ‘The Boys’ Ike Alterman who gave his testimony to his granddaughter Danni and told how he rebuilt his life and made his home in Manchester.
Amongst those to speak at the event were Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, the actress and campaigner against antisemitism Tracy Ann-Oberman and Sharon Bar-Li, the deputy ambassador of Israel.
Thousands lit candles for Yom HaShoah
Rabbi Mirvis spoke powerfully of the need to continue to speak about the “lessons of the Shoah” which he said were “perhaps more relevant today than ever before since the end of the Second World War.”
Posted By Ruth King on December 12th, 2020
The Montefiore Home in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda is a Jewish residential aged-care facility that opened in 1897, and was named after Sir Moses Montefiore, 1st Baronet (1784–1885), a philanthropist, British banker and Sheriff of London.
Montefiore was from an Italian-Jewish family and had no children of his own, but his long and active life got him a mention in the letters of George Eliot, the diaries of Charles Dickens and James Joyce’s
Ulysses. His great-grandnephew Leonard G. Montefiore (1886–1961) was the founding member of the Central British Fund for Jewish Relief, and the driving force behind the Windermere Children Project, a scheme in 1945 to allow young Jewish concentration camp survivors into Britain.