JR is proud to have helped stage a reading in Guernsey of Theresa, Julia Pascal’s play about a Jewish woman from the Channel Islands who was handed over to the Nazis by local authorities…
Lex Lesgever was born on 1 May 1929 in the historic heart of Amsterdam, where Jews had thrived for centuries. He was barely 11 when the Germans occupied the Netherlands in May 1940. By May 1945, approximately 107,000 of the 140,500 of the country’s Jewish population were wiped…
Is there anything more that another exhibition about the Holocaust could possibly offer the viewer? In this instance, absolutely. Seeing Auschwitz brings together over 150 vivid photographs, mainly taken by the SS, to show the atrocities of Auschwitz from a different perspective: that of…
Family and life stories are so much more than simply a collection of dates. Births, marriages and deaths are of course the punctuation to our lives, but it’s the stories in between those events that make up the real lives; that create who we are. As the director of Words by Design, my job…
BELIEVE IT OR SNOT, 11AM Get the day off to a slimy start with zoologist Dani Rabaiotti, who’ll be sharing fun – if gross – facts about nature’s gunk. Find out what on earth “hyena butter” is and whether or not you’d dare eat it, see if you can guess just how much goo a hagfish can spew…
The title of Angelika Bammer’s book recalls two other important post-Holocaust accounts by second-generation writers: Anne Karpf’s The War After (1996) and Eva Hoffman’s After Such Knowledge (2004). The difference…
“Secrets are lies by another name” is the arresting statement at the heart of The Mozart Question, which explores the corrosive legacy of survivor guilt and the redemptive power of music. The novel, by former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo, provides a way into talking about the…