Helen Aronson

Helen Stella Aronson, BEM (née Chmura; born 24 April 1927) is a Polish-born Holocaust survivor from Pabianice who endured the Pabianice Ghetto and the Litzmannstadt (Łódź) Ghetto during the German occupation of Poland. She is one of approximately 750 Jews who survived the liquidation of the Łódź Ghetto out of the roughly 250,000 imprisoned there. After decades of silence, she began publicly sharing her testimony in the 1990s and has since appeared in documentaries, oral history projects, and Holocaust education programmes. Her portrait is in the Royal Collection.