Yad Vashem UK Foundation

Yad Vashem UK Foundation 6 million Jews were victims of the Holocaust, it is our obligation to keep their memory alive. There were 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

Many have no one to remember them. Guardian of the Memory campaigns to ensure that the memory of each and every Jewish person is kept alive by someone today. Our aim is to sign up as many people as possible to become a Guardian of the Memory of Jewish individuals murdered in the Holocaust. In order to honour their memory, every Guardian will be asked to light a memorial candle on Yom HaShoah in memory of the person whose name and personal details they have selected.

At a time of rising extremist antisemitism, and as Holocaust denial and distortions continue to spread online, preservin...
20/08/2026

At a time of rising extremist antisemitism, and as Holocaust denial and distortions continue to spread online, preserving the names and stories of individual victims of the Holocaust is more urgent than ever.

Becoming a Guardian of the Memory is a meaningful way for you to honour one named Holocaust victim by helping preserve their story and memory with dignity and truth.

By remembering one named person, we can fight Holocaust denial, and affirm something essential: that every Jewish victim was a human being with a name, a life, and a story that must never be forgotten.

If you would like to become a Guardian of the Memory, comment โ€œGUARDIANโ€ below.

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Honour a young Holocaust victim with our Twinning Project.
13/08/2026

Honour a young Holocaust victim with our Twinning Project.

Thank you to everyone who has taken part in Yad Vashem UK's Guardian of the Memory project. This is a programme that has...
11/08/2026

Thank you to everyone who has taken part in Yad Vashem UK's Guardian of the Memory project. This is a programme that has been running for many years, and now coincides with Yad Vashem's "5 million names campaign". With your support Yad Vashem has continued to find the names, background stories and identities of 5 million individual Holocaust victims.

By choosing to remember, reflect and honour the lives of individual named Holocaust victims on every HMD and Yom HaShoah anniversary, you are helping to ensure that their names, stories and memories are never forgotten.

The Guardian of the Memory programme is open throughout the year, and we warmly invite everyone to join us at any time in this important act of remembrance. Click here to become a Guardian of the Memory and help remember each life lost during the Shoah. https://www.yadvashem.org.uk/guardian-of-the-memory/

Comment "Guardian" and we will send you information about the available packages.

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Renee Salt BEM enjoying her birthday gift from Yad Vashem UK Foundation.
11/08/2026

Renee Salt BEM enjoying her birthday gift from Yad Vashem UK Foundation.

Tomorrow will be Renee Salt's 97th birthday!Born in 1929, Renee (Rywka Ruchla Berkowitz) lived comfortably with loving p...
07/08/2026

Tomorrow will be Renee Salt's 97th birthday!

Born in 1929, Renee (Rywka Ruchla Berkowitz) lived comfortably with loving parents and a younger sister, as well as a large extended family, in Zdunska Wola. In 1939 after the N***s invaded Poland, on September 3rd, Renee and the rest of her family were forced into a ghetto in Zduล„ska Wola.

In 1942 the children of the ghetto were rounded up. Renee's mother tried to hide her and her sister, but her sister was tragically found. They never saw her sister again.

Renee and her mother eventually made it to the Lodz ghetto, where they lived in horrific conditions. In August 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz-Birkineau, where her father was tragically murdered. Renee and her mother were selected for forced slave labour clearing rubble in Hamburg, Germany, and were later sent to Bergen-Belsen where they were finally liberated on April 15th 1945.
Her mother survived the war alongside her, but tragically died 12 days after liberation.

After the war Renee was reunited with her aunt in Lodz, and the family eventually moved to Paris where she met Charles Salt. Charles was a member of the British Army and had helped to liberate Bergen-Belsen. They married in 1949 and moved to London where they raised a family. Renee has continued to educate about the Holocaust and raise awareness about the dangers of racism, hate language and prejudice, which earned her a BEM for her services to Holocaust education.

Happy birthday for tomorrow Renee! ๐ŸŽˆ๐ŸŽˆ๐ŸŽˆ

The Community Security Trust, (CST), a charity that monitors antisemitism in the UK has revealed a spike in incidents in...
05/08/2026

The Community Security Trust, (CST), a charity that monitors antisemitism in the UK has revealed a spike in incidents in the first six months of 2026, with 1,926 recorded from January to June 2026. Antisemitic incidents are defined as "any malicious act aimed at Jewish people, organisations or property which shows evidence of antisemitic motivation, language or targeting." Greater London saw the highest number of reported antisemitic incidents in the first six months of 2026 with 994, including arson attacks on Hatzola ambulances in Golders Green, North London, on 23 March.

Lord Mann, the government's independent adviser on antisemitism, said that the figures "demonstrate that anti-Jewish racism in the UK remains at an all time high and continues to pose a significant threat to our democracy".

Happy 83rd birthday Robert! So glad you are enjoying your gift from Yad Vashem UK Foundation!
04/08/2026

Happy 83rd birthday Robert! So glad you are enjoying your gift from Yad Vashem UK Foundation!

Happy birthday to Robert Slager!Born in 1943, Robert's mother was forced to give birth to him in a house without medica...
03/08/2026

Happy birthday to Robert Slager!

Born in 1943, Robert's mother was forced to give birth to him in a house without medical aid because by that time Jews could not attend hospitals in Holland. Robert was hidden at one week old, and saved by an observant Protestant family, The Bakels, in Delft, near Amsterdam. After significant bombing, and fear of being exposed to the N***s as hiding a Jewish child, his Christian family uprooted and moved to Stedum in North Holland.

After the war Robert's biological mother found him after a lengthy search that began in Amsterdam. He was identified by a hidden note left with him at one week old, bearing the name Robert, and a distinct birthmark. At five years old he and his mother returned to Amsterdam, the only survivors of their entire family.

The David Slager Jewish Centre in Oxford is named after Robert's father who was murdered in Auschwitz, deported there before he was even born. The benefactor of the Jewish Chabad house in Oxford is David Slager, Robert's son, who is named in memory of his late father murdered in the Holocaust. Robert has shared his personal testimony alongside his granddaughter to emphasise the importance of the Righteous Among the Nations-non Jewish people who risked their lives to help save Jews during the Holocaust.

Happy birthday Robert!

Happy birthday to Steven Frank BEM ๐ŸŽˆ๐ŸŽˆ๐ŸŽˆSteven was born in Amsterdam, the son of a respected lawyer Leonard Frank, who sat...
27/07/2026

Happy birthday to Steven Frank BEM ๐ŸŽˆ๐ŸŽˆ๐ŸŽˆ

Steven was born in Amsterdam, the son of a respected lawyer Leonard Frank, who sat on the board of one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in Amsterdam.

The family decided to stay in Holland even after the N***s invaded in 1940, so that Steven's father could remain with his patients.

Leonard was active in the Dutch resistance, and he and his wife organised false papers for escapees and even hid others in their house. This eventually led to the family's betrayal in 1942, and capture. Steven, along with his brothers and mother, were sent to Westerbork, a transit camp, and then to the Theresienstadt ghetto in September 1944.

Steven's mother got a job in the hospital laundry and gained access to hot water, which she traded for scraps. Steven and his brothers became 3 of 93 children that survived Theresienstadt out of 15,000 children who were deported to that camp. Steven's mother survived, but his father was tragically killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

After liberation by the Red Army in 1945, Steven's mother arranged passage for the family to England. They settled in Hertfordshire, and Steven dedicated much of his adult life to sharing his experiences with schools, universities and organisations across the UK to ensure that the lessons of the Holocaust were never forgotten.

Steven turns 91 today - Happy birthday Steven!๐ŸŽ‚๐Ÿฅณ

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