We remember Ben Lesser

We remember Ben Lesser, Holocaust survivor and dedicated advocate for Holocaust remembrance.

Ben was born in Kraków, Poland, in 1928. Ben and his family were able to avoid the Krakow ghetto by moving to a nearby town, but were eventually forced into the Bochnia ghetto. In 1944, his family was separated and sent to Auschwitz. From there, Ben survived Dörnhau, Buchenwald, and Dachau concentration camps. He and his sister were the only members of his family of seven to survive.

After liberation, Ben settled in Los Angeles, where he married his wife Jean and ran a successful real estate business. In 2009, he founded the Zachor Holocaust Remembrance Foundation (@zachor18), which focuses on Holocaust education, memory preservation, and awareness.

We recorded Ben’s testimony in 1995, and in 2020, he returned to Poland to record another testimony as part of the 360 Testimony on Location project.

May his memory be a blessing.