As a longtime Holocaust educator, I feel it is highly important to show that the Jewish people lived full lives before and after their persecution. Survivors talk warmly about their happy times as children before they were persecuted and isolated by the Nazis. It is also important to explain that many Holocaust survivors, being determined that evil would not win, rebuilt their lives after liberation. Despite losing everything, family, home, community, friends, business, work, they adopted a positive and determined attitude. Many survivors went on to have very successful careers and create a happy family. In fact, some who came to the UK after the war, gave back to society and became great philanthropists. Others became educators; in later life receiving royal recognition for their work in the form of honours. 

One such educator is my dear friend Mala Tribich who devoted many years to teaching young people about the Holocaust.