Bromley’s police cadets heard a Holocaust survivor’s story last week.
Sixty young people from Bromley Volunteer Police Cadets (PVPC) were visited by Mala Tribich MBE, who gave her testimony of the World War Two atrocity.
The event, on Wednesday October 22, was organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust, which runs an outreach programme in schools and community groups.
The cadets were able to better understand the nature of the Holocaust and find out about Mala’s experiences.
Bromley Borough Commander Chris Hafford said: "Mala's life story is both harrowing and inspiring and left you not knowing whether to cheer, clap or cry.
"Our cadets were enthralled for over an hour and asked some searching questions around forgiveness, hope and friendships."
Mala was born in 1930 in Poland and when the Nazis invaded she and her family were soon rounded up and taken to a ghetto.
She was later transported to the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, but despite the appalling conditions and falling ill to typhus, Mala managed to survive until the British Army liberated those inside.
The only member of her family to survive was her brother Ben, who had escaped to England, and remarkably in 1947 she received a letter from him.
She joined him, before going onto study in London, marry husband Maurice, and raise a family.
PC Neill Tully of Bromley Volunteer Police Cadets added: "It was a privilege for us to welcome Mala and her testimony will remain a powerful reminder of the horrors so many experienced."
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