Arek Hersh is a survivor of the Holocaust.

He was born in Poland and was taken to his first concentration camp when he was only eleven years old. The camp started out with 2,500 men, eighteen months later only 11 were alive. Arek moved round several camps before being taken to Auschwitz.

He has written a book on his experiences called A Message from History. All the proceeds go to the Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre .