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Holocaust Memorial Day 2025: "Where is my grandfather?" A family History of the Holocaust in Hungary - The Wiener Holocaust Library

30 January, Virtual Event, 6.00pm UK time

The Stanley Burton Centre warmly invites you to this year's Holocaust Memorial Lecture, co-organised with the Wiener Library, London, and the Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg, in response to the 2025 HMD theme 'For a Better Future'.

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Eighty years after the Holocaust in Hungary, we are still confronted with gaps in our historical understanding of the violent events. The names and fates of tens of thousands of Jews deported and murdered by the Nazis and their allies are unknown. This uncertainty troubles many surviving families. As we become the generations who carry forward the legacy of the witnesses and remember those who were murdered, more and more descendants embark on the quest to reconstruct their family histories of the Holocaust.

Hungarian writer and journalist Judit Kárpáti will speak about her mission to find out what happened to her grandfather – a mission that is orientated towards the future. The Nazis deported László Schächter from Hungary in 1944 and deployed him for forced labour in camps in Northern Germany where he perished. Judit will reflect on the importance of history for her own family as well as for society at large in conversation with historian Louis Wörner, active in memorial initiatives in Hamburg and researcher in the project ‘Digital Commemoration and Research Infrastructure: The Holocaust in Hungary 80 Years Later’. Tim Cole, Professor of Social History at the University of Bristol, will contextualise this family history with the Holocaust in Hungary and the deportations.

We hope to see many of you virtually for what promises to be an exciting international and cross-institutional event.

For information about future events, please email BURTONCENTRE@le.ac.uk 

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