Yad Vashem calls the My Voice Holocaust Survivor Storyteller Project “globally unique”. And it is. It has delivered Holocaust remembrance, first hand testimony and educational tools that are second to none. The My Voice project has allowed 60 incredible Holocaust Survivors to tell their whole life stories and be able to share them with families and friends – something many had never done before.
Now, as the My Voice Project continues to publish books and film Survivors, it is also transitioning to an educational phase where it will work to ensure the My Voice books are used by as many schools as possible across the UK to enhance their Holocaust curriculum. So many schools use the fiction of the “Boy In The Striped Pyjamas” and we need to stop that happening. The My Voice books, written in the first person, are the best tools to achieve this.
My Voice is a stand-alone project of The Fed, and we need to raise money for it every year to ensure it can continue to operate. That is why I am walking 50kms – more than the distance of a marathon – in two days from Carlisle Airport to Windermere on The Fed My Voice Trek. It is particularly poignant because it is almost 80 years to the day the Windermere Boys arrived at Carlisle Airport after being liberated at Theresienstadt. My Voice has published the books of 6 of “The Boys” and so this route is particularly fitting.
You will all know how passionate I am about the My Voice project and our incredible Survivors. Please support me in any way you can – the My Voice project depends on it.
Thank You.