From Things Lost: Forgotten Letters and the Legacy of the Holocaust Seminar
- Time:
- 18:00
- Date:
- 9 May 2017
- Venue:
- Part of The Parkes Institute's Research Seminar Series for 2016/2017
For more information regarding this seminar, please email The Parkes Institute at parkes@southampton.ac.uk .
Event details
Part of The Parkes Institute's Research Seminar Series for 2016/2017
From Things Lost: Forgotten Letters and the Legacy of the Holocaust
This talk will tell the story of a German-Jewish refugee and his extraordinary collection of letters, hidden in a garage in Johannesburg for over 40 years, including correspondence with a close childhood friend who became a Nazi.
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Speaker information
Dr Shirli Gilbert, University of Southampton. is Co-Director of the Parkes Institute for Jewish/ non-Jewish Relations, and Associate Professor of History at the University of Southampton. Her most recent book is From Things Lost: Forgotten Letters and the Legacy of the Holocaust (2017).