As Rob Rinder and mum Angela got their MBEs from Prince Charles for their services to Holocaust education, a third family member was very much in their thoughts – Rob’s Holocaust survivor grandfather.
Morris Malenicky survived three Nazi concentration camps before arriving as a refugee in Cumbria in 1945, and Angela says he would have been thrilled at his descendants being honoured at Windsor Castle for ensuring the horrors he lived through are never forgotten.
Angela, 68, who chairs the 45 Aid Society for survivors and their families, says: “Prince Charles asked me how long I’d been working at the charity, but I told him it was in my DNA because my father was a Holocaust survivor.
