HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023 EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION AT LATYMER

Among the events organised to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2023, we welcomed some very moving speakers including Holocaust survivor, Steven Frank. Steven spoke to pupils and staff about his unique and personal insight into the Holocaust and the destruction it caused.

We are very grateful to Steven’s nephew, Nick FRANK (1981), for his support in arranging this important talk.

Born in Amsterdam in 1935, Steven was just five years old when the Nazis invaded and occupied the Netherlands. He spoke movingly about his family and how the life they had known suddenly changed.

Steven discussed his father, Leonard Frank, a much-respected lawyer who worked tirelessly to help the most disadvantaged in their local community. He sat on the board of a large hospital for the mentally ill. When the Nazis invaded, the family had offers to help them escape to Britain, but Leonard Frank was worried about the patients and refused to flee.