A Living Tradition CIC – Remembering the Relief of Belsen – HMD 2025

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Activity type: Public activity

Organisation name: A Living Tradition CIC

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Address:
Bewick Hall, Newcastle City Library
33 New Bridge Street West
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne & Wear
NE1 8AX
United Kingdom

An event to commemorate and celebrate the role played in the Relief of Belsen in the spring of 1945 by one of our local regiments - the 113 LAA RA TA, affiliated to the Durham Light Infantry - when men from the Northeast helped Jewish, Roma and other survivors. There will be illustrated talks by local historian Peter Sagar and ex-MEP Julie Ward, and the screening of an interview with Frank Lavin from Hartlepool, whose father Wilf was part of the DLI detachment at Bergen-Belsen in April and May 1945. Young people from North Benwell Youth Project, many from a Roma background, will show how they have responded to the story through artwork.

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