Ben Helfgott (born 22 November 1929) is a British Holocaust survivor and former champion weightlifter.

He was a guest on the BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs programme on 1 April 2007. He chose to be stranded with a copy of Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy and a bar with two discs for weight training.

Helfgott was one of the individuals included by the London Jewish Museum in 2010 for an exhibit in which five British Jews recounted their experiences on video, representing what David Aaronovitch described in The Times as describing the "different ways of being Jewish".

Born in Pabianice, Lodz, Poland, Helfgott was only 10 years old when the Nazis invaded the country in 1939. In 1942 with the help of Mr. Andrew Janotta he convinced the Nazis that he was Polish and not a Jew. He was eventually sent to a concentration camp, but in 1945 he was released, but he was understandably weak. Initially sent to Buchenwald, Helfgott survived the Holocaust and was sent to England after the war with 700 other youngsters after being liberated from Theresienstadt. He and one of his sisters were the only members of his family to survive; his mother and youngest sister were rounded up and shot by the Nazis. when in England he set up a Jewish youth club