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2023 (19)

  • November 28th – Tuesday 28th November: Hybrid Event: Matthias Weniger: The Restitution of Stolen Silver, 6:30-8:00pm GMT: A Joint Second Generation Network and Wiener Holocaust Library Event 
                                                                     ...
  • November 14th – Tuesday 14th November – Discussion Group: Our Experiences with Refugees
    Network Members Anita Grosz and Elaine Sinclair will introduce the discussion of this topic by...
  • October 24th – Tuesday, 24th October – Responding to the Needs of Current Refugees
    The Network is presenting a panel discussion with three activists about the impact coming from a...
  • October 17th – Tuesday 17th October – Second Generation Network AGM
    The Network AGM is open to all Network Members. If you would like to join, please...
  • October 10th – Tuesday 10th October – Traces Of A Lost Past – Finding Family Files in the World Jewish Relief Archive and the LostLift Database
    Dr Rachel Pistol, a digital historian at King’s College London who works on the European...
  • September 12th – Tuesday 12th September – Discussion Group: Anxiety
    Drawing on his own experiences, Network Member John Wohlgemuth will introduce the discussion of...
  • September 12th – Tuesday 12th September – Discussion Group: Refugees’ Needs     
    Network Members Anita Grosz and Elaine Sinclair will introduce the discussion of this topic by...
  • July 11th – Tuesday 11th July – Discussion Group: Using Oral History   
    Third Generation Network Member Tom Willett will introduce the discussion of this topic by...
  • June 25th – Sunday 25th June – Meeting of the Cambridge Network Regional Group.
    Following on from discussions at our April meeting we will be considering the topic...
  • June 20th – Tuesday 20th June – The After-Life of Books
    As a follow-up to our Writing the Holocaust and Publishing the Holocaust series, three members...
  • May 23rd – Tuesday 23rd May – Dual citizenship – a new belonging?  
    At this in-person event, held at and in association with South Hampstead Synagogue, we will...
  • May 9th – Tuesday 9th May – Discussion Group: Language – Belonging and Identity
    What was your mother tongue or first language? Which languages did you hear as you grew up? How did...
  • April 25th – Tuesday 25th April – Family Holocaust Research: Making the Best Use of the ITS:  Update
    In the course of researching the fates of our relatives, many of us will have received documents...
  • April 16th – Sunday 16 April – Bristol & SW Group
    The next in-person meeting of our group will be on  16 April 2.30-4.30 at David Hodes’...
  • April 3rd – Monday 3rd April – Being Second-Third Generation: Awareness, Challenges, Gains.   
    A previous discussion meeting was held last year to examine emotional patterns arising from having...
  • March 14th – Tuesday 14th March – Discussion Group: The Anschluss, a Transmitted Event
    To mark 85 years since the Annexation of Austria, we will reflect on how, through family stories,...
  • March 5th – Sunday 5th March – The Fire and the Bonfire – Jewish Book Week Event in Association with the Second Generation Network
    Celebrated artist Ardyn Halter, in conversation with art historian Monica Bohm-Duchen, offers a...
  • February 21st – Tuesday 21 February – Rescuers: Who is a ‘rescuer’? Did someone assist in the survival of your Parents and Grandparents?
    Network member Naomi Levy will return to speak about her ongoing research into her family’s...
  • January 10th – Tuesday 10th January – Discussion Group: Holocaust Memorial Day ‘Ordinary People’
    The January Discussion Group will focus on the 2023 HMD theme of ‘Ordinary People’. Were the...

2022 (23)

  • December 6th – Tuesday 6th December – Memorialisation: the Options and Issues
    A panel of speakers will talk about their experiences of arranging memorials for their relatives in...
  • November 22nd – Tuesday 22nd November – Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma: An Update on Recent Developments
    Professor Judit Gervai, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Hungarian Academy of...
  • November 8th – Tuesday 8th November – Discussion Group: Commissioning and Laying Stolpersteine and Other Family Memorials: Impact on Family Understanding
    The November Discussion Group will be introduced by Elaine Sinclair, a long-standing member of the...
  • October 27th – Thursday 27th October – Researching relatives who were interned on the Isle of Man
    Introduced by Network Committee Member, Anita Grosz, who has recently visited the Isle of Man to...
  • October 13th – Wednesday 19th October – Second Generation Network AGM 
    The AGM will include the presentation of the Annual Accounts, Election of Members of the Second...
  • September 13th – Tuesday 13th September – Discussion Group: The Transmission of Intergenerational Trauma and the Resultant Emotional Patterns
    This discussion will be introduced by one of our Dutch Network Members Ido van der Heijden, who is...
  • July 12th – Tuesday 12th July – Discussion Group: Publishing the Holocaust – Follow-up and Feedback
    Three Network Members Irving Adler, David Clark and Julie Nelki will provide an introduction,...
  • July 11th – Tuesday 11th July – The Lost Cafe Schindler 
    Meriel Schindler will be in conversation with Network Member Nik Pollinger discussing the process...
  • June 12th – Sunday 12th June at JW3 –  Zoom  Workshop ‘Being Second Generation’
    More than 70 years after the Holocaust, children of survivors and refugees will explore together...
  • June 7th – Tuesday 7th June – 2g/3g Dialogue: The World War II Holocaust of Sinti and Roma (Sarmudaripen) – A Personal Account of its Impact
    Daniela Abraham (Third Generation) from the Sinti Roma Holocaust Memorial Trust will be describing...
  • June 5th – Sunday 5th June – Cambridge Regional Network Group meeting
    Members of the Second and Third Generation who live in or near Cambridge are welcome to join...
  • May 24th – Tuesday 24th May – 2G/3G Dialogue – Linking the Generations
     It is widely accepted that the Holocaust impacts the various generations in very different ways....
  • May 10th – Tuesday 10th May – Discussion Group Meeting: Insiders? Outsiders? – Where Do We Belong?
    Where if anywhere do we feel we belong?  Network Member David Gordon will introduce this subject...
  • April 26th – Thursday 26th April – Professor Mary Fulbrook – Bystanders
    Please note the rescheduled date. Professor Mary Fulbrook will return to speak to the Network...
  • March 29th – Tuesday 29th March – Restitution of Citizenship: What is involved?
    Following Brexit many of us will have been considering how we can retain a European identity, and...
  • March 6th – Sunday 6th March – Jewish Book Week tie-in with Simon May
    We are delighted to be sponsoring this event as part of Jewish Book Week. Simon May, visiting...
  • March 1st – Tuesday 1st March – Discussion Group Meeting: Missing Memorials
    Have you visited a site in Nazi-occupied Europe where a relative experienced persecution, death or...
  • February 24th – Thursday 24th February – Book Launch: The Journey Home: Emerging out of the Shadow of the Past
    Second Generation Committee Member, David Clark, and Teresa von Sommaruga Howard are the editors of...
  • February 21st – February 21st – The stories of Jan Kurz-Bernstein and Lola Waksman.
    7.30pm Join G2G speaker Noreen Plen to hear her family story. Information and booking click...
  • February 10th – February 10th – What if… The Holocaust, Uyghur Genocide and our moral responsibility today
    7.30pm                                                              ...
  • February 8th – POSTPONED – The Lost Café Schindler
    In conversation with Network Member Tania Barnett, Meriel Schindler will speak about...
  • February 6th – 6th February – Cambridge Second Generation Network Group Meeting
    The next meeting of the Cambridge Network group will be held on Sunday 6th February at 2.30pm...
  • January 11th – Tuesday 11th January 2022 – Discussion Group Meeting: Holocaust Memorial Day: 2022 Theme – ‘One Day’
    In this Discussion Group meeting Network Member and founder Ruth Barnett will introduce the...

2021 (25)

  • December 16th – Thursday 16th December – Holocaust Research: How the Holocaust Determines the Professional Choices of the Second Generation and the Third Generation
    On Thursday, December 16th, join an important talk on Zoom discussing the Second and Third...
  • December 5th – Sunday 5th December – Meeting of the Cambridge Second Generation Network Group
    If the Holocaust is part of your heritage and you would like to meet other members of the Second...
  • November 30th – Tuesday 30th November – Using Your Voice: With Lord Alfred Dubs
    As part of our Using Your Voice series of events, Kind Lord Dubs will speak to the Network, along...
  • November 16th – Tuesday 16th November – A Wounded Landscape: Bearing Witness to the Holocaust
    Author and photographer, Marc Wilson, in conversation with Ben Barkow, former Director of the...
  • November 11th – October 5 – November 11, 2021 – “Writing Your Family History” Writing Workshop,
    This course offers a practical exploration of writing a family history and the issues raised for...
  • November 10th – Tuesday 9th November – Discussion Group Meeting: Using Your Voice
    In this Discussion Group meeting we will share experiences of how our Holocaust heritage has...
  • October 21st – Thursday 21st October – The new Holocaust Memorial/Walls of Names in Vienna
    This is a joint event with the Second Generation Network, the Wiener Holocaust Library and the...
  • October 19th – Tuesday 19th October – Second Generation Network AGM and Open Mic Entertainment
    The Annual General Meeting of the Second Generation Network will take place at 6:00pm BST on...
  • October 11th – Monday 11th October – How Has the Holocaust Determined your Professional Choices?
    Professor Judy Baumel-Schwarz of Bar Ilan University in Israel will share her latest research...
  • October 3rd – Sunday 3 October – Cambridge Regional Group
    The inaugural meeting of the Cambridge Regional Group will take place at 3pm on Sunday 3rd October...
  • September 14th – Tuesday 14 September – Discussion Group Meeting: What’s in a Name?
    In this discussion group meeting we will explore the impact a name can have, revealing or...
  • August 17th – Tuesday 17th August – Virtual tour of the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam
    Network Members Sue Smeding and Jet Herrera-Lambo, who both work at the Anne Frank House in...
  • July 13th – Tuesday 13 July – Discussion Group meeting: Sharing about Caring
    What issues do the Second Generation face as they care for the...
  • June 29th – Tuesday 29th June – The 3G Experience
    A panel of three members of the Third Generation will share their experiences of life as a member...
  • June 15th – Tuesday, 15th June — Publishing the Holocaust
    Following on from our series of events, ‘Writing the Holocaust’, a panel of Second Generation...
  • June 1st – Tuesday 1 June – Book Club: Jonathan Lichtenstein, author of “The Berlin Shadow: Living with the Ghosts of the Kindertransport” in conversation with John Dunston.
    John Dunston will be discussing with Jonathan Lichtenstein his first book, The Berlin Shadow:...
  • May 19th – Wednesday 19 May – Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain in conversation with the directors of “Truus’ Children”
    Pamala Stuurhoofd and Jessica van Tijn, directors of the documentary “Truus’...
  • May 19th – Until 19 May – UK film première of the film “Truus’ Children”
    Truus Wijsmuller, a recognised hero, is not a household name but will be familiar to anyone with a...
  • May 11th – Tuesday 11 May – Discussion Group meeting: Curating our Archives
    Many of us have inherited/discovered caches of letters and documents, often in illegible...
  • April 6th – Tuesday 6 April 2021 – Book Club: Hadley Freeman (3G) , author of “House of Glass” in Conversation with Tania Barnett
    Another in our occasional series of Book Club events where we have the chance to hear from and talk...
  • March 9th – Tuesday 9 March 2021 – Discussion Group meeting: Remembering the Forgotten Exiles
    This follows the very well attended presentations given by Jennifer Craig-Norton on ”Domestic...
  • February 11th – Thursday 11 February 2021 – Professor Mary Fulbrook: Reckonings
    Professor Mary Fulbrook FBA is Professor of German History and Dean of the Faculty of Social and...
  • January 12th – Tuesday 12th January 2021 – Discussion Group: ‘Be the Light in the Darkness’ (HMD’s 2021 Theme)
    We will be discussing this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day theme. A chance for members of the...
  • January 7th – Thursday 7th January 2021 – Keepsakes of the Kindertransport/Holocaust Art Book Project
    Caroline Slifkin will speak to the Network about her commemorative art project and the creative...
  • January 7th – Thursday 7th January 2021 – Keepsakes of the Kindertransport/Holocaust Art Book Project
    Caroline Slifkin will speak to the Network about her commemorative art project and the creative...

2020 (14)

  • December 8th – Tuesday 8th December 2020 – Second Generation Experience in Holland
    Network Member, Sue Smeding, will talk about her work at the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam, and how...
  • November 10th – Tuesday 10th November 2020 – Discussion Group: The Concept of Rescue
    Who was saved? How? By whom? What are the lasting impacts on the Second and...
  • October 14th – Wednesday 14th October 2020: Writing the Holocaust – Authors’ Perspectives
    As part of our series of events on ‘Writing the Holocaust’, we will hear from: Second...
  • September 8th – Tuesday 8th September – Discussion Group on Commemoration: To lay Stolpersteine or not to lay Stolpersteine? That is the question…
    These commemorative ‘stumbling’ stones are one way to honour the memory of relatives...
  • August 11th – Tuesday 11th August – Holocaust Education Presentation and Q&A
    Long-standing Network Member Vera Bernstein, now also a member of Generation 2 Generation, will...
  • July 15th – Wednesday 15th July – Discussion Group – Internment
    To mark 80 years since the Internment of German and Austrian Jewish refugees in the UK, including...
  • June 24th – Wednesday 24th June – Nick Barlay – Writing the Holocaust, followed by Q&A  
    Following the unfortunate postponement of the very popular writing workshop, we are delighted that...
  • June 9th – Tuesday 9th June – George Szirtes – The Dual Perspective of an Exile, followed by Q&A
    The prize-winning poet and translator will talk about his experience as a member of the Second...
  • May 26th – Tuesday 26th May – Discussion Group – The Invasion of the Netherlands
    Tuesday 26th May – Discussion Group – The Invasion of the Netherlands To mark 80 years since...
  • May 26th – Tuesday 26th May – Panel Discussion – Visits to Places with Family History Connections
    Originally part of the AJR’s International Forum on the Second Generation, which was...
  • March 13th – Friday 13th March 2020 – Writing the Holocaust Workshop
    As a follow-up to our very well-attended Writing the Holocaust discussion group meeting, we will be...
  • March 2nd – Monday 2nd March – Fictionalising the Shoah (Jewish Book Week)
    The Second Generation Network is sponsoring this evening event. ‘To write poetry after Auschwitz...
  • February 11th – Tuesday 11th February 2020 – The Forgotten Exiles – Jewish Refugee Domestics in Britain, 1938 – 1945
    Although over twice as many refugees from Nazism came to Britain on so-called Domestic Visas...
  • January 14th – Tuesday 14th January 2020 – Holocaust Memorial Day theme: Stand Together
    This Second Generation Network discussion group meeting looks at the HMD theme for 2020. What is...

2019 (1)

  • December 3rd – Tuesday 3rd December – Children under the Nazis
    A member of the Second Generation Professor Nicholas Stargardt, who gave such an interesting...

2018 (1)

  • January 22nd – Nationwide Arts Festival celebrates refugees from Nazi Europe and their contribution to British culture
    Celebrating Émigré Contributions to British Culture Until March 2020 Insiders/Outsiders is a...

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