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May 2024

Welcome to our new format e-newsletter. We hope you are enjoying our new approach to sharing news via email and e-newsletter and linking to our website. In this issue you can hear from our historian Jaime Ashworth about the Auschwitz Album and our activity during the last month. You can also learn about upcoming events we are running as well as those of our partners.

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Upcoming Events

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Detail from One Spring, Gurs Camp, 1941 Karl Robert Bodek and Kurt Conard Löw.

G2G Achievements

Academic year 2023/24 has been a successful year for Generation 2 Generation.  Our bookings overall have increased by approximately 10%.  We have also received many bookings for 2024/25. Here we summarise our key achievements since Jan 2020 when we became a registered charity.  Since January 2020 we have delivered over 1000 presentations to over 100,000 people with requests for speakers increasing year on year …
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Shoes of the victims on display at Auschwitz.

About the Hungarian Holocaust

How did the Hungarian Holocaust happen? Why is it particularly shocking even compared to the rest of the history of the Holocaust?  The period before World War I was a golden age for the Jews of Hungary. They were free to practise their religion, pursue their trade and gain an education. The community flourished, and Jews came to occupy prominent positions in Hungary’s cultural, professional and business life. With the end of the war, the good times came to a sudden end. Hungary, a parliamentary democracy, was the first European country to introduce the Numerus Clausus in 1920, a law curbing education of Jewish citizens …
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Partner Events

Second Generation Network

Tuesday 18 June 6.30pm BST Online: When Time Stopped:
A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains Second Generation author of When Time Stopped, Ariana Neumann, will be in conversation with Network Member, Rachel Hall. Ariana will share the discoveries she made following the death of her Czech-born father, how she researched and wrote this fascinating and moving memoir about her father’s escape from Czechoslovakia and the fates of other less fortunate members of her unknown Czech family. Please book  here.

Tuesday 2 July 6.30pm BST Online: Reading Between the Lines
Finding or inheriting family letters, often in languages we don’t speak and barely decipherable handwriting, can present descendants of refugees and survivors from Nazi Europe with many challenges, dilemmas and rewards. Three Members of the Second Generation Network, Erika Hagelberg, Jackie Kohnstamm and Irv Adler, will share their experiences. Please book here.

Maccabi GB

Sunday 23 June 2024 The Maccabi GB Community Fun Run
This will take place on at a North-West London location. Runners will be raising thousands of pounds for their favourite charities around a 10km, 5km or 1km track.  The Community Fun Run is a real highlight of the Jewish community calendar. You are very much invited to take part and raise money for G2G. Please register at jvn.org.uk

National Holocaust Centre and Museum (formerly Beth Shalom)

  • Holocaust Survivor Testimony with Malka Levine
    Bank Holiday Monday 27 May, 13:00-15:00
  • Family Days during May Half Term
  • Mini tour guide experiences & themed craft activities
  • Family Days at the National Holocaust Museum | The National Holocaust Centre and Museum

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