Channing School – Talk – HMD 2026

Activity information

Activity type: Private activity

Organisation name: Channing School

Website: https://www.generation2generation.org.uk/the-story-of-mirjam-finkelstein/

Address:
Channing School
The Bank, Highgate
London
London
N6 5HF
United Kingdom

Calum Isaacs - a speaker for Generation2Generation - will deliver a talk to Y9 girls at Channing School on his own family's experiences and memory of the Holocaust.

Calum is the grandchild of Mirjam Finkelstein, who passed away when he was 14 years old. While she was alive, he remembers Friday night dinners at his grandmother’s house and shared festivals and holidays together.

Mirjam’s story was and continues to be discussed and shared by Calum’s family, with his uncle Daniel Finkelstein writing a book about her and her husband’s respective stories of persecution titled ‘Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad’. Calum has learnt from his grandmother and his family the importance of keeping alive stories like Mirjam’s, and shares their view that it is important for maintaining a tolerant society.

Organiser Name

Alex Morgan

Other organisation(s) involved

Generation2Generation