Ivor Perl, born Yitzchak Perlmutter, is an Hungarian/British holocaust survivor. He grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family with eight siblings – four brothers and four sisters. In 1944 hewas forced onto a train with his family. After days of suffering in the cramped and dirty train carriage with people dying around them, they arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau. In January 1945, with the Russian army descending upon Auschwitz from the east, the Nazis aimed to evacuate the camps and head west before the...
Ivor Perl, born Yitzchak Perlmutter, is an Hungarian/British holocaust survivor. He grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family with eight siblings – four brothers and four sisters. In 1944 hewas forced onto a train with his family. After days of suffering in the cramped and dirty train carriage with people dying around them, they arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau. In January 1945, with the Russian army descending upon Auschwitz from the east, the Nazis aimed to evacuate the camps and head west before their arrival, destroying evidence of the systematic murder which had taken place. Ivor and his brother Alec were sent by train to the Allach concentration camp in Germany.
Ivor Perl, born Yitzchak Perlmutter, is an Hungarian/British holocaust survivor. He grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family with eight siblings – four brothers and four sisters. In 1944 hewas forced onto a train with his family. After days of suffering in the cramped and dirty train carriage with people dying around them, they arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau. In January 1945, with the Russian army descending upon Auschwitz from the east, the Nazis aimed to evacuate the camps and head west before their arrival, destroying evidence of the systematic murder which had taken place. Ivor and his brother Alec were sent by train to the Allach concentration camp in Germany.
