To mark Holocaust Memorial Day the LSE Jewish Society is hosting survivor Joan Salter who will talk about her past experiences. Come and hear her story - open to all.
To mark Holocaust Memorial Day this year, the LSE Jewish Society is hosting a survivor to give a talk about her past experiences. Please come and hear her story. This event is open to all.
**Email m.foster1@lse.ac.uk to sign up to attend as places are limited!**
Holocaust Memorial Day takes place on 27 January each year. It’s a time for everyone to pause to remember the millions of people who have been murdered or whose lives have been changed beyond recognition during the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution and in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
On HMD we can honour the survivors of these regimes and challenge ourselves to use the lessons of their experience to inform our lives today. 27 January marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. (See more at: http://hmd.org.uk/page/why-mark-27-january-holocaust-memorial-day#sthash.9KsAV6LG.dpuf) Joan Salter is a child survivor of the Holocaust. Born Fanny Zimetbaum in Brussels on 15 February 1940 to Polish Jewish parents, she was three months old when Belgium was invaded by the Nazis. (See more at: http://hmd.org.uk/resources/stories/hmd-2015-joan-salter#sthash.aRwrKGJg.dpuf)
Joan is also involved in the Moving Portraits Project. Moving Portraits features six portraits of survivors of genocide who now live in the UK. The portraits show the survivors in their homes, holding a photograph or object that helps them to share their story. Joan holds a photograph of her as a young child travelling to safety in America.The images feature an element of movement within a still photograph and were created by artist Will Head. (http://hmd.org.uk/news/moving-portraits-survivors-will-feature-screens-across-uk-holocaust-memorial-day)