Lewes HMD Group: For a Better Future – Auschwitz 80 years on – HMD 2025
Activity information
Activity type: Public activity
Organisation name: Lewes Holocaust Memorial Day Group
Website: https://hmd-lewes.org/CMS_Calendar.html
Address:
Trinity St John Sub Castro Church
Abinger Place
Lewes
East Sussex
BN7 2QA
United Kingdom
Saturday 25 January, 3–5pm.
Anita Peleg tells the remarkable story of her mother Naomi, deported to Auschwitz where several family members were selected for the gas chambers. Following forced labour in a bomb factory and escape from a death march, Naomi rebuilt her life as a sculptor. Today her work promotes understanding between faiths. Anita is one of some forty volunteer speakers from the charity Generation2Generation (G2G).
Joanna Clarke is Head of History at Hurst College and has taught Holocaust education for fifteen years. She has run multiple educational trips on this topic, including to Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen. Her talk will explore how, as we get further from the Holocaust, we can try and get closer to the truth. Moving away from a depersonalised narrative of victimhood, her work with students draws on diverse personal stories, such as pictures by children or documents about the fates of teenagers from one class.
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