Zigi Shipper

Zigi Shipper BEM (born Zygmunt Shipper; 18 January 1930 – 18 January 2023) was a Polish survivor of the Holocaust and public speaker. Born and raised in Łódź, Poland, he survived the Łódź Ghetto, the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, the Stutthof concentration camp, and a death march to Neustadt in Holstein, and was eventually liberated by the British Army on 3 May 1945.

In 1947, he moved to England and became a public speaker and educator with the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET), often speaking in schools about his experiences. In 2016, he was awarded a British Empire Medal for 20 years of work educating people about the Holocaust.