Uri Winterstein Awarded BEM In New Years Honours 2020

Uri Winterstein Awarded BEM In New Years Honours 2020.

Uri Winterstein, a local Chiswick resident who has been awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) in the New Year’s Honours, shares with us his incredibly moving story.

As a volunteer of the Holocaust Educational Trust since 2013, Uri travels to various schools across the country talking about his and his family’s personal experiences during World War 2 (WW2).

Uri’s and his family lived in Slovakia which became part of the Nazi empire during WW2. He explains how his parents and sister were taken to a concentration camp, while he was a ‘hidden child’, given away for protection. Uri was only 19 months old at the end of the war and was reunited with some of his family a few years later.

Holocaust Memorial Day takes places on the 27^th of January. It helps to spread awareness of the Holocaust and the saddening stories of those like Uri who experienced it first-hand.

You can see the Chiswickbuzz interview with Eva Schloss, Anne Frank’s step-sister, here.

You can see our Chiswickbuzz interviews with Polish freedom fighter Wira of Warsaw here and here.

Holocaust Educational Trust website can be found here.