Holocaust Memorial Day at the University of Sussex
This event is open to all students, staff and alumni however booking is essential as seating is limited. Please use the following booking link: alumni.sussex.ac.uk/hmd-booking
Programme:
| 1:30pm |
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Professor Michael Farthing, Vice-Chancellor, University of Sussex |
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| 1:50pm |
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Talk by Professor Dan Stone, Professor of Modern History, Royal Holloway, University of London. |
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| 3:00pm |
Tea |
| 3:30pm |
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Joanna Millan, Holocaust Survivor will speak about her experiences during the Holocaust. Joanna’s talk will be followed by a Question and Answer session chaired by Professor David Tal, |
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| 4:45pm |
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‘Night Will Fall’ is a powerful documentary about the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. A discussion with the director, André Singer, will follow the showing of the film |
Dan Stone is a historian of ideas who works primarily on twentieth-century European history. His research interests include: the history and interpretation of the Holocaust, comparative genocide, history of anthropology and the cultural history of the British Right. He is the author or editor of fifteen books and some seventy scholarly articles.
Dan is co-editor of the Journal of Genocide Research and Patterns of Prejudice and
on the editorial boards of Critical Philosophy of Race and Hypothesis and History of Communism in Europe.
His most recent publications include Goodbye to All That? The Story of Europe since 1945 (Oxford University Press, 2014) and The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and its Aftermath (Yale University Press, 2015). He is currently writing a volume on The Concentration Camp for OUP’s Very Short Introductions series.
Joanna Milan was born Bela Rosenthal in August 1942 in Berlin. In February 1943, Bela’s father was taken from the streets of Berlin and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau where he was murdered on arrival. Later that year Bela and her mother were taken from their home and sent to the Terezín (Theresienstadt) Ghetto north of Prague. In 1944, when Bela was 18 months old, her mother contracted tuberculosis due to the conditions in the camp, and subsequently died leaving Bela orphaned and alone in the camp.
After the camp was liberated, along with 299 other surviving orphans, Bela was flown to London. Her name was changed to Joanna, and she was told to forget her past and forbidden to contact the other refugees.
Joanna has been a magistrate for the past 33 years and a Trustee/Director of the Association of Jewish Refugees who are sponsoring this event. She was a Board member of the London Jewish Cultural Centre and responsible for their Holocaust Department and the formation of the website entitled: ‘theholocaustexplained’. Joanna is Chairman of the newly formed International Centre for Jewish Studies based in the UK.
We are most grateful to the Association of Jewish Refugees who have supported this event and enabled us to make it free for all to attend.
For further information, please contact Diana Franklin, Centre Manager, Tel: 020 8455 4785 or 01273 678771 d.franklin@sussex.ac.uk