Mala Tribich

Mala Tribich (born 24 September 1930) is a Polish-born British Holocaust survivor and educational speaker.

Early life
Tribich was born in 1930 to a Jewish family in Piotrków Trybunalski, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland. Her older brother was Ben Helfgott.

During the Holocaust, she was interned at Ravensbrück and later sent to Bergen-Belsen. She and her brother Ben were the only members of her family who survived.

Later life
Tribich has lived in the UK since 1947. She trained as a secretary in London and in 1950 married Maurice Tribich, an architect from a British Jewish family.

She has given talks at many schools and universities across the UK about the Holocaust.

Honours
Tribich was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours, for services to education.