Barnet Libraries – Presentation by Dalya Wittenberg – HMD 2025
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Activity type: Public activity
Organisation name: Barnet Libraries
Address:
Osidge Library
Brunswick Park Road
Barnet
London
N11 1EY
United Kingdom
Join us online only on Wednesday 22 January 2025 from 7-8pm, London, UK time via MS Teams for: A Holocaust Memorial Day presentation by Dalya Wittenberg from Generation 2 Generation (G2G).
Dalya tells her grandmother’s Cilla Rotblat.
Cilla Rotblat née Friedman was born in the small Polish town of Sochaczew. At the outbreak of the war, when she was around 18 years old and her boyfriend (who later became her husband), Yaakov Laifer. The elders of the Sochaczew Jewish community took the difficult decision to advise the youngsters to flee towards Russia.
After the war, fearful of returning to Sochaczew, Cilla and Yaakov were taken to a camp for displaced people in Austria. They stayed there as refugees and eventually settled in the newly established state of Israel. They went on to have two children, a daughter called Yona and Dalya’s father, Dov with 20 grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Please note, this event is online only, not in-person.
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