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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
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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...