Fermanagh and Omagh District Council – Schools Workshops – HMD 2025
Activity information
Activity type: Public activity
Organisation name: Fermanagh and Omagh District Council
Address:
Silver Birch Hotel
5 Gortin Road
Omagh
Tyrone
BT79 7DH
United Kingdom
Holocaust Memorial Day - Schools Programme
Good Relations department in Fermanagh and Omagh District Council has organised two workshops for post primary schools in the district. The workshop will be led by Generation2Generation representative Maralyn Turgel who will share the story of her father Sam Gardner born in 1925 as Shmuel Yankel Golberg, in Pietrokow, Poland. Following the German invasion of Poland in 1939, punitive laws were enforced against the Jews, who were constantly in fear for their lives.
In 1942 Sam and his father were selected to work as slave labourers in an ammunitions factory. A year later they were moved to Buchenwald Concentration Camp where they lost their only possessions – their treasured photographs. In 1944 he was separated from his father in Schlieben Labour Camp, never to see him again. Finally, in April 1945 Sam was taken on a long ‘death journey’ on cramped cattle trucks with no food, water or sanitation, to Mauthausen Concentration Camp. Out of 2000 on the journey he was
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Fermanagh and Omagh District Council