Holocaust Memorial Events at The Old Courtroom
Speaker: Susan Kingsley, Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue tells the story of its own treasured Czech Scroll. Rescued in 1942 and discovered in a disused Prague synagogue in the 1960s, this Torah Scroll is all that remains of the destroyed Jewish community of Frydek-Mistek,
Readings: Year 6 students, Carden Primary School
Speaker: Bryan Huberman: The story of a child survivor of the Holocaust. Alfred (Avram) Huberman was born in Poland in 1928; he was one of six children. At the outbreak of WWII aged 12 he went into hiding where he remained until 1942 when he was incarcerated in the first of five concentration camps. He spent the following three years forced to work as a slave labourer.
Presentation: Jane Liddell-King and Photographer, Marion Davies. Faces in the Void: Czech Survivors of the Holocaust*.
Inspired by a single Czech scroll, Jane and Marion travelled to its original home of Pardubice, in search of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. Throughout the project they pursued intersecting stories including in the UK, those of Sir Nicholas Winton and Alice Sommer Herz.
Date: Monday 26th January 2015, 1.15 – 4pm
Venue: The Old Courtroom, 118 Church Street (side entrance) Brighton BN1 1UD