Remembering the past: Protecting the future

Monday 30 January 2012, 7.00PM

Speaker: Dr Jane Grenville, University of York

Remembering the past: Protecting the future is part of the University and City of York’s series of events to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. It will be a moving and challenging evening that draws on personal family history to explore some of the modern day messages to be drawn from the history of the Holocaust.

The event will include an illustrated talk by University of York Pro-Vice-Chancellor Dr Jane Grenville whose father escaped from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport, klezmer music performances by internationally renowned clarinettist Lesley Schatzberger and a new drama performance written and performed by pupils from local schools. The event will conclude with a candle lighting ceremony. It will be followed by a reception and a chance to view the Portraits for Posterity exhibition in addition to a new commission to be screened in the 360 degree presentation space.

This event is part of the University and City of York’s series of events to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, an international event held in January every year to mark the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by the Soviet army and to remember the victims of the Holocaust. Holocaust Memorial Day is also an occasion to remember the victims of more recent genocides and to make a personal commitment to challenging all forms of prejudice and intolerance in our own communities.

With thanks to the City of York Council for generously supporting Remembering the Past: Protecting the Future

Contact Paul Tyack for details.

Other lectures in this series:

• The public secret
  

Admission by free ticket only, available from www.york.ac.uk/tickets.

Location: The Atrium, the Ron Cooke Hub