Biography

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...Read more