Events

After the two recent well-attended Discussion Group meetings on Love and Intimacy, we continue with this challenging topic, this time focussing on Parenting and the Third Generation. How much and how have our Second Generation patterns affected the ways in which we have raised our children?  How much of our Second Generation inherited traumas have we passed on to the Third Generation?  Network Member Ido van der Heijden will give a brief introduction, after which participants will have the opportunity to share their own experiences and insights. Please note our Discussion Group meetings are for Network members only. To book a place please email:
davidwirth@secondgeneration.org.uk

In part three of our series ‘Creative Responses to the Holocaust’, two distinguished string players, Krzysztof Chorzelski (Second Generation) and Laura van der Heijden (Third Generation) will talk about what music and music making means to them in connection with their backgrounds. Krzysztof is a viola player and a longstanding member of the renowned Belcea quartet as well as a chamber music professor. Krzysztof’s mother was smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto in March/April 1943. Laura, a cellist, won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in 2012 when she was just 15 and has an international career as a soloist and chamber music musician. This year she won the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society 2025 Instrumentalist award. Laura is the great-granddaughter of the Dutch conductor Martin Spanjaard who was murdered in Auschwitz in 1942. Both will talk about their backgrounds and life stories and the role music plays in their lives in connection to being Second/Third Generation Holocaust survivors. After their presentations, there will be time for your Q & A and a chance to share your experiences of using the creative arts, especially music, to explore and engage with your Holocaust heritage. To register please visit:
https://2G-3G_music.eventbrite.co.uk

How do we continue the legacy, tell our family story? Hephzibah Rudofsky, daughter and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, will provide the introduction to this Discussion Group meeting, describing how she tells her family’s story, using their artefacts. In 2009, she established an educational programme, ‘Surviving the Holocaust’ with her mother, Lady Zahava Kohn, which she delivers to schoolchildren of all backgrounds, university students, and adults – through an interactive and deeply personal approach. As the custodian of an extensive family archive of artefacts, letters, photographs, and documents collected and preserved by her mother and grandmother during their time in Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen, and Biberach camps, Hephzibah uses these to add a profound and tangible dimension to her presentations. Following her introduction there will be a chance to discuss your own experiences of using your family archive to share your family story or share your thoughts on how you might be inspired to do so in the future.
A Zoom link will be provided. 6.20pm for 6.30pm BST. If you would like to attend, please email: davidwirth@secondgeneration.org.uk

Following on from the presentations by those who have already donated parts or all of their family archives, in this event we will hear from representatives of archives and museums in the UK and beyond to which we might consider donating our family archives. Hari Jonkers – Archivist at Holocaust Centre North; Diana Popescu – Curatorial Researcher, The National Holocaust Centre and Museum; Howard Falksohn – Senior Archivist at the Wiener Holocaust Library; Aubrey Pomerance – Head of Archives at the Jewish Museum Berlin; Orit Noiman – Head of Collection & Registration Section and Sara Sarfaty – Gathering the Fragments Department Collections Centre Yad Vashem, will all describe their institutions’ policies on acquiring, storing, digitising and making use of donations. This event is open to all generations. After the presentations there will be time for your questions and comments. Booking details will follow soon.

Many of us have inherited family archives – letters, photographs, diaries, objects – precious, fragile items that have somehow survived the Nazis, the Holocaust and WWI/II and found their way to us, the Second and Third Generations. Where should they go next: do we retain them within the family or donate them acknowledging their historical significance?  In this event we will hear from members of the Second Generation – Naomi Levy, Julia Donat, Merilyn Moos and Marian Liebmann – who have taken the momentous step of donating their archives to the Wiener Holocaust Library, the Imperial War Museum, Senate House and Fotohof Salzburg. They will share their dilemmas and experiences, what they donated, when, why, how they came to make the decision about the recipient archive and country, how they feel about it now, and the impact on the wider family. We will also hear a Third Generation perspective. This event is open to all generations. After the presentations there will be time for your questions and comments. To attend, please visit:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/donating-your-archive-a-2g-3g-experience-tickets-1086958695719?aff=oddtdtcreator.

6.30-8.00pm GMT

There will be an introduction by Ido van der Heijden. All Network members are invited to attend. Please note that Members need not have attended the first meeting to participate in this event. Please book your place by emailing davidwirth@secondgeneration.org.uk