Central to this BBC campaign is his meeting with Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg, whose life story illustrates exactly why such education remains vital.
Harry Potter actor Jason Isaacs will present this weekend’s BBC Radio 4 charity appeal for Holocaust education, meeting with a 95-year-old survivor whose story is now preserved through groundbreaking virtual reality technology.
For Isaacs, this mission hits close to home. Having grown up in Liverpool’s Childwall suburb within a close-knit Jewish community his immigrant great-grandparents helped establish, the 62-year-old actor has described himself as “profoundly Jewish but not in a religious way.”
Since October 7, he’s frequently appeared wearing a yellow hostage pin and used his platform to speak against antisemitism.