Harry Bibring RIP
Kindertransport survivor Harry Bibring has died at 93, having been involved in Holocaust Education right up until the end of life.
Born in Vienna in 1925, Mr Bibring and his sister were among the 10,000 children sent to Britain by their parents, after increasingly brutal Nazi attacks on Jews, including the destruction of the family’s business during Kristallnacht.
The plan was for his mother and father to follow when they could, but the outbreak of war prevented this. Mr Bibring’s father died of a heart attack in November 1940, while his mother was deported by the Nazis to the Sobibor death camp in 1942, where she was murdered.
In his later years, Mr Bibring became an educator about the Nazi holocaust or Shoah, addressing school children around Britain about his experiences. He received the British Empie Medal in 2018 for his services to Holocaust Education.
Mr Bibring, who died on Thursday, gave his last speech to students just a day before his death.
Rest in Peace.
Born in Vienna in 1925, Mr Bibring and his sister were among the 10,000 children sent to Britain by their parents, after increasingly brutal Nazi attacks on Jews, including the destruction of the family’s business during Kristallnacht.
The plan was for his mother and father to follow when they could, but the outbreak of war prevented this. Mr Bibring’s father died of a heart attack in November 1940, while his mother was deported by the Nazis to the Sobibor death camp in 1942, where she was murdered.
In his later years, Mr Bibring became an educator about the Nazi holocaust or Shoah, addressing school children around Britain about his experiences. He received the British Empie Medal in 2018 for his services to Holocaust Education.
Mr Bibring, who died on Thursday, gave his last speech to students just a day before his death.
Rest in Peace.
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