Local events connected to Holocaust Memorial Day 2021
We are happy to pass on details of local events (following coronavirus restrictions) taking place in the coming months. Holocaust Memorial Day is marked once a year, but it’s important to raise awareness throughout the year, too.
If you know about an online event we should include below, please email us at chair@bristolhmd.org.
14 January, 7:30pm-9pm
Ferramonti: Salvation behind the barbed wire
Live-streamed online by DAVAR Bristol
Free – email info@davarbristol.co.uk for Zoom link
David Henryk Ropschitz’s novel, Ferramonti, drew on the three years he spent in an internment camp in Calabria, which became Italy’s largest internment camp for Jewish people during World War Two. His daughter, Yolanda Ropschitz-Bentham, used to live in Bristol and now lives in Somerset; she will talk about editing the book and how she went on to meet other survivors of Ferramonti and their descendants.
Wednesday 27 January 2021, 1pm-2pm
Holocaust Memorial Day – Holocaust Landscapes, with Professor Tim Cole
Online lecture organised by Bristol Libraries
Free – register via Eventbrite
Bristol Libraries presents an online lecture from Professor Tim Cole, to mark HMD. Professor Cole lectures in social history at the University of Bristol, and he is also the Director of the Brigstow Institute. He has published three books about Holocaust history.
Wednesday 3 February 2021, 3pm-4:30pm
Holocaust Memorial Day 2021: Be the light in the darkness – Steven Frank BEM and Dame Helen Hyde
Zoom course organised by The Ammerdown Centre
Free – book by calling 01761 433709 or emailing admin@ammerdown.org (course reference: Z0321)
Hear Holocaust survivor Steven Frank BEM and Holocaust educator Dame Helen Hyde (a Bristol HMD speaker in 2020) tell their stories.
Thursday 11 March, 7:30pm-9pm
The Wolf of Baghdad: Memoir of a Lost Homeland
Live-streamed online by DAVAR Bristol
Free – email info@davarbristol.co.uk for Zoom link
Carol Isaacs’ graphic memoir, The Wolf of Baghdad, is about the lost Jewish population of the Iraqi capital city. In the 1940s there were 150,000 Jewish people in Baghdad; in the space of a decade, nearly all had left, and some of those remaining were killed. Today, less than six Jewish people live in the city. Carol, a musician and cartoonist, will speak about her memoir.
Saturday 13 March 2021, 10am-4pm
Esther ‘Etty’ Hillesum
Day course (government guidelines permitting) led by Sue Glanville at The Ammerdown Centre
£50, including morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea – book by calling 01761 433709 or emailing admin@ammerdown.org (course reference: D0521)
Esther ‘Etty’ Hillesum was a Dutch Jewish woman whose diaries from 1941-1943 were published in 1981. This course looks at Etty’s reflections on her life, her spiritual exploration, and her reactions to the persecution Jewish people faced.