Our hearts are broken, but Zigi's spirit and his message will live on
A man used to come to our offices to deliver stationery to a company upstairs. He would always stop for a chat and a bit of a flirt. One day he asked what we did, and I told him we were the Holocaust Educational Trust. Among other things, I said, we made sure that schools heard from Holocaust survivors. He stopped short.
“You know I am a survivor?” he said.
There was a pause. I got up from my desk and we talked. There was some bafflement and amazement, and as we say, the rest is history.
Zigi became the man we relied upon. He travelled up and down the country, sharing his testimony. It was impossible to remember a time when he wasn’t in our lives. I remember telling Ben Helfgott, a Holocaust survivor and dear friend, that Zigi was speaking, and he was so delighted.
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