Programme ‘Keep the Memory Alive’
27th January 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, and will also be the 20th anniversary of the Genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia. Therefore the theme for this major anniversary year focuses on ‘Memory’.
The following events are organised by Sussex University with the generous support of the Association of Jewish Refugees
- 1.30 pm Welcome – Professor Michael Farthing, Vice-Chancellor, University of Sussex, Abraham Baldry, President, University of Sussex Students’ Union, Dr Gideon Reuveni, Director, Centre for German-Jewish Studies
- 1.50 pm Thomas Harding will tell the true story of the Jewish investigator who pursued and captured one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious war criminals. The talk will be followed by a Question and Answer session
- 3.30 pm Survival, Memory and Trauma. Zahava Kohn, a survivor of Bergen Belsen, will be in conversation with her daughter, Hephzibah Rudofsky (Kohn). She will speak about her war time experiences and about her family’s story of survival against the odds. Zahava and her parents lived through the horrors of Westerbork transit camp and then Bergen Belsen concentration camp. The talk will be followed by a
Question and Answer session
Venue: Jubilee Building Lecture Theatre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QN.
Free entry to this event is made possible by the generous support of the Association of Jewish Refugees.