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PROGRAMME
Holocaust Memorial Day
3 Talks, 2 days

DATE: Wednesday 27th January 2021

START TIME: 5pm
SPEAKER: Lesley Urbach from Generation 2 Generation

SURVIVOR STORY: Lesley Urbach’s maternal family came from a small town in North-East Germany which
Eva Urbach 1922-2010 now belongs to Poland. Her mother, neé Eva Wohl, and three aunts escaped to Britain
Ulli Adler 1925-2004 and Argentina in 1938 and 1939. Their parents were murdered at Auschwitz on 19
February 1943.

Lesley’s presentation uses film and radio testimony provided by her mother and
youngest aunt, neé Ursula Wohl (known as Ulli), family photos and brief excerpts from
historical films. These are interspersed with Lesley talking about the family’s
life before and after the Nazis came to power in early 1933; explaining why and how
her 16-year-old mother and 13-year-old aunt Ulli came to Britain on the
Kindertransport in December 1938; and focusing on what happened to their parents
left behind in Germany using letters and poems sent by her grandparents to England
and Argentina before and during the World War II.

Lesley refers to the other groups of people murdered during the Holocaust and a link is
made to the ongoing persecution of people because of, for example, their ethnicity,
religion, colour, gender, sexuality or disability and the audience is encouraged to do
something when they see injustice. Lesley amends the focus of the talk depending on
the age of the audience.

Text and photographs are from https://www.generation2generation.org.uk/

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DATE: Wednesday 27th January 2021

START TIME: 6pm
SPEAKER: Roxzann Baker from The Wiener Holocaust Library

Talk title: The Roma Genocide, and Early British Responses

Talk description: While awareness of the Holocaust has

developed significantly in recent years, appreciation of the
Roma Genocide within this remains low. Using documents
from The Wiener Holocaust Library’s unique archive, this talk
will give an overview of this often overlooked event, explore
how the British public responded to it as it unfolded and in
the immediate postwar aftermath, and contemplate how this
response can inform our approach to the topic today.
Speaker biography: Roxzann Baker works within the
education team at The Wiener Holocaust Library, researching
and writing The Holocaust Explained digital educational
resource. She has a MA in Holocaust Studies from Royal
Holloway, University of London, and a BA in History from
Queen Mary, University of London.

Photograph shows Margarete Kraus,

a Czech Roma who was sent to Auschwitz,
photographed after the war by Reimar Gilsenbach.
Courtesy of The Wiener Holocaust Library collections.

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DATE: Wednesday 28th January 2021

START TIME: 2pm
SPEAKERS: Ruth Barnett & Tania Barnett
Ruth Barnett came to England at age four
on the Kindertransport in 1939.
She joined us last year to deliver a talk entitled "Why
has Holocaust commemoration since 2001
and Holocaust education in the National
Curriculum since 1991 failed so far a)to curb the
repeated rise of Jew-hatred and racism and b) to
bring genocide perpetrators to justice in
the International Criminal Court.”
We are honoured that she has agreed to join us again
this year with her daughter Tania Barnett. Tania will
speak about the experiences of growing up with a
Kindertransportee mother, the effect of the
Holocaust and any massive trauma on subsequent
generations.

LINK TO SIGN UP FOR 27TH JANUARY EVENT, SEE HERE

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