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Our annual Holocaust Memorial Day event will take place at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts on the AVÊÓƵ campus on Wednesday 5 February 2025, from 2pm to 5.15pm.

The programme will be split into two sessions:

SESSION 1:

Testimony from our guest speakers, Holocaust Survivors, George Summerfield and Peter Summerfield BEM

Peter Summerfield BEM, Hon. Solicitor of the Advisory Board of the Weidenfeld Institute and his twin brother George Summerfield will speak about their experiences during the Holocaust.

Born in Berlin in 1933 to a civil servant father and dressmaker mother, George and Peter witnessed the escalating persecution of Jews, including the burning of their synagogue on Kristallnacht. After years of unsuccessful attempts to emigrate, help from their building's caretaker enabled a last-minute escape. The Summerfield brothers fled Germany as jewish refugees, four days before the outbreak of World War II. Tragically many of their family members were left behind and murdered.

Their story will be followed by a question-and-answer session chaired by Professor Gideon Reuveni, Director of The Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies.

SESSION 2:

Film ‘Letter to a Pig’ (2022 Israeli-French animated short film)

Following the film screening, Tal Kantor, who wrote and directed the film, will be in discussion with Professor Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden, Professor of Digital Memory, Culture and Heritage, Deputy Director of the Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies and Lital Henig, Isaacsohn and André Visiting Fellow, Weidenfeld Institute.

We are most grateful to The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) who are generously supporting this event. 

This event is open to everyone. However, booking is essential as places as strictly limited.

If you are unable to attend this event in person, the event will also be live-streamed. The link will be available on this page as the event date approaches.

Posted on behalf of: events@sussex.ac.uk
Last updated: Monday, 4 November 2024