Renee Salt, BEM, was born Rywka Ruch­la Berkowitz in Zduńs­ka Wola, Poland, in 1929, and is a Holo­caust sur­vivor and edu­ca­tor. Renee and her moth­er sur­vived both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. After the Holo­caust, Renee returned to Poland to try and find any sur­viv­ing mem­bers of her fam­i­ly and found an aunt who was liv­ing in Łódź, who she moved in with. From there they moved to Paris, where Renee met her hus­band Charles, who was a British mil­i­tary police­man who helped to lib­er­ate Bergen-Belsen. They mar­ried in 1949 and had two chil­dren. Renee lives in north­west Lon­don and has 5 grand­chil­dren. She reg­u­lar­ly speaks in schools, orga­ni­za­tions, and to the gov­ern­ment about her expe­ri­ences dur­ing the Holocaust.