Weidenfeld Institute – Survivor Talk and Film Screening – HMD 2025

Activity information

Activity type: Public activity

Organisation name: Weidenfeld Institute

Website: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/centres/jewish-studies/news-and-events/events?id=66168

Address:
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
University of Sussex, Gardner Centre Road
Falmer Brighton
E Sussex
BN1 9RA
United Kingdom

Our annual Holocaust Memorial Day event will take place on the University of Sussex 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

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