Walter Bingham was born in Germany. Just days before the outbreak of WWII, with the help of a Zionist youth movement he was selected for a place on the ‘Kindertransport’ to Great Britain.
Walter saw front line action during the Normandy invasion of Europe and was awarded the Military Medal for ‘Bravery in the Field’. In England Walter also acted in films including several Harry Potter films.
On the day of his Aliyah in August 2004 he transferred his programme ‘Walter’s World’ to Israel National Radio as a weekly Magazine programme and it has been running here regularly ever since.
Walter is an accomplished public speaker and was a member of a visiting panel of lecturers at schools throughout the UK, where he spoke on events in the Third Reich. He has also spoken at schools in the USA and addressed audiences in Israel.
On his most recent show, Bingham spoke to Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, who served as secretary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe and is now the Chairman of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch and Machne Israel, Chabad’s education and social services arms.
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Thanks for clarifying. That makes more sense.
You’ve got it wrong. I was born on Jan. 5. 1924
He could not have been born in 1939 and served in Normandy (1944). According to Wikipedia he was born in 1924.
It appears that the reference to “just days before the outbreak of ww2” is referring to when he was “selected for a place on the ‘Kindertransport’ to Great Britain.”
Shavua Tov.
Please read Wikipedia Walter Bingham MM, born Wolfgang Billig in Karlsruhe, Weimar Republic 1924, is a British-Israeli journalist, actor, entrepreneur, holocaust survivor and decorated WWII veteran.[1] He made Aliyah to Israel in 2004.[2] At age 91 in 2015, Walter is Israel’s oldest field journalist.[3] Walter was a driver in the British Royal Army Service Corps, took part in the invasion of Normandy in June 1944 and was subsequently transferred to Counter Intelligence, where he also interviewed Nazi foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop who denied all knowledge of the Holocaust. “ I spoke to Ribbentrop (..) He was good looking and… Read more »
“Walter Bingham was born in Germany. Just days before the outbreak of WWII,” “Walter saw front line action during the Normandy invasion of Europe and was awarded the Military Medal for ‘Bravery in the Field’.” Date of the beginning of WW2 (or at least the date that Germany started their participation in what would eventually be known as WW2. Because a Google search turned up this bit if info “The two dates most often mentioned as “the beginning of World War II” are July 7, 1937, when the “Marco Polo Bridge Incident” led to a prolonged war between Japan and… Read more »
How could he be in his seventies if he saw front line action in the Normandy Beach Invasion & was awarded the Military Medal for Bravery in the field? He must be in his nineties in fact.
Thanks for sharing….
PLEASE READ the article.
He is in fact in his 70’s.
He, was born in1939 right before the outbreak of WW2.
What a sweet guy. He often davens with us in Beit Levi – Chabad of Baka. While into his 90s, he could totally pass for someone in his 70s. May Hashem continue to give him strength – until 120