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Martin Stern MBE

In this podcast Holocaust survivor Dr Martin Stern talks about his story. Martin was born in 1938 and lived in Holland. He survived camps at both Westerbork and Theresienstadt.

You can listen to the interview with Dr Martin Stern MBE below:

So can you tell us a bit about your life before the Holocaust?

I was born in 1938 in Hilversum in the Netherlands. My mum and dad had fled Germany, they were both born in Berlin, and my father lived in a beautiful villa outside Berlin, his mum and dad, my grandparents were wealthy businesspeople, and very loyal Germans. Their older son fought in the First World War, and for all I know might have killed British soldiers, they were thoroughly German, but they were also Jewish. My mother was not Jewish; and decided to marry my father in 1938, and that in Germany was illegal. So they fled in to Holland, and they found that the Dutch, to avoid upsetting the Germans had made it illegal there too. So they got married in Belg

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Tales of the Orient by Simon Ostheimer

Born and bred in the picturesque city of Cheltenham in the English Cotswolds, home to the Cheltenham Literature Festival, the world’s oldest, Andy Brouwer is the Product & Marketing Manager at Hanuman Travel and a producer and researcher at Hanuman Films. He also edited the compilation To Cambodia With Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur. With such a literary background, it is no wonder he has had a lifelong passion for books, and has assembled a collection of more than 400 on the Kingdom.

I owe a debt of gratitude to the award-winning journalist John Pilger. It was his 1979 documentary Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia that I watched from my sitting room in Cheltenham that first grabbed my attention and exposed me to the tragic story of Cambodia (then also known as Kampuchea). I was horrified. Deeply moved by the film The Killing Fields in the mid-80s, my knowledge of Cambodia as a country improved substantially, and

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Cambodian genocide

1975–1979 mass killing of Cambodians bygd the Khmer Rouge

Cambodian genocide
Skulls at the Choeung Ek memorial in Cambodia
Location	Democratic Kampuchea (present-day Cambodia)
Date	17 April 1975 – 7 January 1979 (3 years, 8 months and 20 days)
Target	Cambodia's previous military and political leadership, middle-class professionals, businesspeople, intellectuals and ethnic, linguistic, or religious minorities
Attack type	Genocide, classicide, politicide, ethnic cleansing, cultural genocide, starvation, forced labour, torture, mass rape, summary execution
Deaths	1.2 to 2.8 million^[1]
Perpetrators	Khmer Rouge, Kampuchea Revolutionary Army
Motive

The Cambodian genocide^[a] was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodian citizens^[b] bygd the Khmer Rouge beneath the leadership of Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea, Pol Pot. It resulted in the deaths of 1.5 to 2 million people from 1975 to