Visit to St Marylebone School
On the 19th March 2025, Hephzibah visited St Marylebone School to present to the Year 9 students. “Their warm welcome and keen questioning was a credit to the school and its community.”
Read MoreHephzibah at Tate Britain - Our Local Heroes Exhibition
In October 2024, Hephzibah was honoured to speak at Tate Britain as part of the Our Local Heroes exhibition, an event run and arranged by the charity Uniting Friends.
Read MoreWhy we must keep sharing stories →
SMSJ are very fortunate that Hepzibah agrees to return to us every year to tell us about her mother’s experiences during the Holocaust. Louka in Y8 spoke to Hephzibah about her experiences.
Read MoreHolocaust Memorial Day 2024 →
Hephzibah Rudofsky spoke as a member of the Second Generation at the HMD event at JW3. 26th January 2024.
Read More‘Remembering the Holocaust’ – a moving and inspirational talk at Lambrook School →
It was an enormous honour to welcome Hephzibah Rudofsky back to Lambrook this week to talk to our Year 7 pupils, following Holocaust Memorial Day last Saturday.
“It was such an amazing talk. I was utterly gripped. I found it so incredible, there were so many twists which meant Zahava and her family survived.” Year 7 Pupil
“I thought that it was so interesting and very informative. It displayed the reality of Jewish people’s lives in war… I thought it made such a difference to have a personal story.” Year 7 pupil
Read MoreA journey through history
“This talk was particularly interesting as we were able to make links to things we are learning in our A-Level course, where we cover the atrocities committed by the Nazis, although, Hephziba’s account added unique and valuable context that will be beneficial, not only in our studies but also in paying respects and honouring those who suffered in the Holocaust.”
Read MoreHolocaust Survivor's Story - Article from Young Reporter →
In the lead up to Holocaust Memorial Day, King Solomon High School hosted an interschool memorial event, in which I was fortunate enough to attend. Descendant of a Holocaust Survivor, Hephzibah Rudofsky, educated attendees in her family’s history through recounting the personal story of her family’s experiences during World War Two.
Read More‘Remembering the Holocaust’ – a moving and inspirational talk
It was a great honour to welcome Hephzibah Rudofsky back to Lambrook this week to talk to our Year 7 pupils ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day.
Hephzibah’s talk, ‘Remembering the Holocaust’ was her incredibly striking family story, and one that captivated Year 7 from start to finish. She told the moving story of three generations and the remarkable journey that her family had during the War and in surviving the Holocaust.
Holocaust Memorial Day 2023 at Latymer Upper School →
Hephzibah Rudofsky, daughter of Holocaust survivor, Lady Zahava Kohn MBE, returned to Latymer on Monday, 23 January, to speak to our Year 9 students. The talk was one of the events organised to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2023.
Read MoreLady Zahava Kohn Obituary from the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) Journal →
Zahava Kohn never defined herself as a Holocaust survivor. For most of her life, she never spoke about her wartime experiences. Her parents had always encouraged Zahava and her brother Jehudi to look forwards – to be optimistic and build a happy life ahead.
Read MoreHolocaust survivor Lady Kohn dies at 86 - Article from the Jewish Chronicle →
Holocaust survivor Lady Zahava Kohn MBE has died one week shy of her 87th birthday.
Read MoreHephzibah Rudofsky invited to speak at the St Marylebone CE School
“An amazing opportunity arose last week, for all budding historians of St Marylebone school. Hephzibah the daughter of Zahava came to talk to us about her mother’s experience during WW2 and the traumatic events that she encountered, simply because she was Jewish.”
Read more about the visit here.
St Marylebone CE School Students with Hephzibah
Hephzibah visits Lambrook School to participate in the Holocaust Memorial Day talk and workshop for Upper School
On Thursday, 27th January 2022, Hephzibah visited the Lambrook School where she delivered her remarkable “Surviving the Holocaust” story with the Year 8 pupils.
Read more about her visit in the Lambrook News here.
Hephzibah shares Holocaust artefacts with the pupils at Lambrook School
Holocaust Memorial Day 2021
Film that Hephzibah was asked to make as part of the Holocaust Memorial Day online ceremony for Hackney Council.
Hackney hears from Rabbis and survivors for Holocaust Memorial Day 2021
Holocaust survivors shared their stories in an online memorial event to remember the atrocities committed under the Nazi regime and in genocides around the world.
Read more about the memorial day in the Hackney Gazette here.
