Past Events

31 Mar

The Kindertransport's Rescuers and Rescued: A Second-Generation Conversation

March 31, 2020    
2:00 pm EDT
Join online for a fascinating conversation about the Kindertransport and its legacy with • Barbara Winton, daughter of rescuer Sir Nicholas Winton, who died in [...]
16 Mar

Conference: Approaching the History of Internment: Reconsiderations of Wartime Britain and Beyond: Retrospective & contemporary examinations - London

March 16, 2020 - March 18, 2020    
All Day
This Event Has Been Cancelled Second Generation Network is one of the organisations organising this 3-day conference on internment to mark 80 years since enemy [...]
13 Mar

Writing the Holocaust Workshop - London

March 13, 2020    
10:00 am EDT - 5:00 pm EDT
Second Generation Network is holding a writing workshop at the Wiener Holocaust Library. The author Nick Barlay (Scattered Ghosts: One Family's Survival Through War, Holocaust [...]
03 Mar

Discussing the Holocaust with Subsequent Generations - London

March 3, 2020    
6:30 pm EST - 8:30 pm EST
This Network discussion group meeting for members of the Second and Third Generations, looks at the subject of discussing the Holocaust with subsequent generations. When [...]
02 Mar

Fictionalising the Shoah - Jewish Book Week London

March 2, 2020    
7:00 pm EST
The Second Generation Network is sponsoring this event. ‘To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.’ But despite Theodor Adorno's dictum dramatising the Holocaust has become [...]
01 Mar

Book Talk with Dr. Jennifer Craig-Norton

March 1, 2020    
1:00 pm EST
“The Plight of Refugee Children: Then and Now,” Jennifer Craig-Norton’s talk on her book, The Kindertransport: Contesting Memory, will benefit the Central Valley Holocaust Educators’ [...]
11 Feb

The Forgotten Exiles - Jewish Refugee Domestics in Britain, 1938 - 1945 - London

February 11, 2020    
6:30 pm EST - 8:30 pm EST
Although over twice as many refugees from Nazism came to Britain on so-called Domestic Visas than via the Kindertransports, this subject has received far less [...]
26 Jan

Standing Together: How One Synagogue saved Children's Lives - London

January 26, 2020    
6:00 pm EST - 8:00 pm EST
Dr Jennifer Craig-Norton will present research of never before studied archives that offers unique insight into the work of the ‘Hospitality Committee’ which sponsored individual [...]
14 Jan

Holocaust Memorial Day theme: Stand Together - London

January 14, 2020    
6:30 pm EST - 8:30 pm EST
This Second Generation Network discussion group meeting looks at the HMD theme for 2020. What is the meaning of the concept Stand Together in the [...]
12 Jan

KT2 Jonathan Tel book launch - New York

January 12, 2020    
6:00 pm EST
KT2 and wonderful writer Jonathan Tel is reading from his new book, Scratching the Head of Chairman Mao, at Word bookstore in Brooklyn!