It is widely accepted that the Holocaust impacts the various generations in very different ways. But what is not often discussed is how each generation perceives the other and the interactions that occur. This conversation between four members of the Second Generation and their offspring will provide an intimate insight into experiences, feelings and our relationships with one another. There will be a follow-up discussion on Thursday 9th June, with breakout rooms, to further explore the topics that arise.
Via Zoom, 6.20pm for 6.30pm BST. Booking details as follows: https://2g-3g_dialogue.eventbrite.co.uk
Events
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 Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London, will be interviewed by Kavita Puri, award-winning journalist and radio broadcaster, about his recently published book How to Be a Refugee.
His powerful and moving memoir takes on questions of home and belonging that continue to be asked today. Most Jews living in Hitler’s Germany faced emigration or deportation but there was also the more unusual route of self-concealment in the shadow of the Third Reich: denial of one’s origins to the extent of erasing almost all consciousness of it, and refusing to believe one was Jewish. Simon, who was forbidden to identify as Jewish, German or British, reveals the very different trajectories taken by his mother and two aunts as they grappled with what they felt to be a lethal heritage.
The event will be at the St Pancras Room, Kings Place starting at 2.45pm GMT. Tickets £9.50.
For further information including booking tickets, go to: jewishbookweek.com/event/how-to-be-a-refugee/
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 this new book, which has a theme of journeys undertaken by Second Generation Members, including several Network Members, in search of ‘home’ or where their parents and grandparents had lived. It contains 20 accounts of journeys to places connected with family history, including Germany, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia and Romania. A third of the chapters involve journeys with a survivor or refugee parent, another third without a parent and the final third in connection with a commemorative event. Each chapter reflects on how making such a journey changed perceptions of parents and family history, and impacted on identity and life choices. The authors also reflect on the mourning and grieving process facilitated by these journeys. The book also dwells on the search for belonging and identity, rendered all the more urgent and immediate by the reality of Brexit. This is a Zoom event beginning at 6.30pm GMT. Please register by going to:
https://thejourneyhome-booklaunch-24february2022.eventbrite.co.uk
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 here https://www.generation2generation.org.uk/news/events/
February 10th – What if… The Holocaust, Uyghur Genocide and our moral responsibility today
7.30pm
Join Steven Frank, Holocaust survivor and his grand-daughter, Maggie Fleet speaking to Uyghur family, Kerim Zair and Dilnaz Kerim, facilitated by Richard Green, Director of content for CNN
Information and booking click here https://www.generation2generation.org.uk/news/events/
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 GMT. If the Holocaust is part of your heritage and you would like to meet other members of the Second and Third Generations in an informal setting in central Cambridge you would be very welcome to join us. At this meeting we will continue to share stories associated with items we bring along – a letter, document, photo, photocopy or artefact – that relate to our family history. If you would like to attend, please email info@secondgeneration.org.uk