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Survivor Stories
with Jack Kagan
LEC137
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Tuesday 2 November, 7.30pm
£5 - All Proceeds go to the Holocaust & Education Department
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The LJCC have learned, through working in Holocaust education for many years, that eye witness testimony from Holocaust survivors is the most powerful tool in raising awareness of the dangers of prejudice and racism.
Our survivor speakers’ programme enables thousands of school children each year to hear and learn from these compelling stories of human endurance and man’s capacity to ill-treat his fellow man.
Now we would like to give you the opportunity to engage personally with direct testimony from Jack Kagan, a Novogrudek survivor who joined the Bielski Brigade, an extraordinary group of Jewish partisans in the forests of Belorussia. After the war Jack settled in London. He has put enormous effort into ensuring that the Jews of his town are never forgotten.
Tonight’s event will also include the launch of Jack’s remarkable new book, 'We Stood Shoulder to Shoulder.'
As Sir Martin Gilbert said in the foreword to the book;
‘Jack Kagan has done another remarkable service to Holocaust history and Holocaust education. As with his memoirs, Surviving the Holocaust with the Russian Jewish Partisans, and his volume on his hometown Novogrudok, he sets out the narrative and documentation of a savage era, when several hundred Jewish towns in eastern Poland and western Russia – now Belarus - faced the Nazi onslaught on their Jewish citizens, and suffered the terrible fate of ten thousand Jewish localities throughout German-occupied Europe.
'We Stood Shoulder to Shoulder' is an essential document for present and future historians. Thanks to the vision and efforts of Jack Kagan, it is now made accessible to a wide English readership. In it are highly researched essays by two scholars from Belarus, Inna Gerasimova, Director of the Museum of the History and Culture of the Jews of Belarus (Minsk), and Viacheslav Selemenev, Director of the National Archive of the Republic of Belarus (Minsk), who tell the story of the Jewish partisans and their contribution to the Soviet war effort behind German lines.
Tamara Vershitskaya, the Curator of the Museum of History and Regional Studies in Novogrudok, supplied the thirty-one documents that are the core of the historical veracity of this book, and translated them from their original Russian to English. Jack Kagan has added important material on his home town, Novogrudok, from which he escaped to the partisans at the age of fourteen.
This book makes clear just how hard the Jewish partisans fought, and how severe were the pressures against them, from the Germans always, and also at times from non-Jewish partisans.
Copies will be available for sale at the launch price of £12.50 (RRP £19.99), signed by the author.
£5 - All Proceeds go to the Holocaust & Education Department.
The Café will be open from 6pm for light snacks and refreshments.
Our survivor speakers’ programme enables thousands of school children each year to hear and learn from these compelling stories of human endurance and man’s capacity to ill-treat his fellow man.
Now we would like to give you the opportunity to engage personally with direct testimony from Jack Kagan, a Novogrudek survivor who joined the Bielski Brigade, an extraordinary group of Jewish partisans in the forests of Belorussia. After the war Jack settled in London. He has put enormous effort into ensuring that the Jews of his town are never forgotten.
Tonight’s event will also include the launch of Jack’s remarkable new book, 'We Stood Shoulder to Shoulder.'
As Sir Martin Gilbert said in the foreword to the book;
‘Jack Kagan has done another remarkable service to Holocaust history and Holocaust education. As with his memoirs, Surviving the Holocaust with the Russian Jewish Partisans, and his volume on his hometown Novogrudok, he sets out the narrative and documentation of a savage era, when several hundred Jewish towns in eastern Poland and western Russia – now Belarus - faced the Nazi onslaught on their Jewish citizens, and suffered the terrible fate of ten thousand Jewish localities throughout German-occupied Europe.
'We Stood Shoulder to Shoulder' is an essential document for present and future historians. Thanks to the vision and efforts of Jack Kagan, it is now made accessible to a wide English readership. In it are highly researched essays by two scholars from Belarus, Inna Gerasimova, Director of the Museum of the History and Culture of the Jews of Belarus (Minsk), and Viacheslav Selemenev, Director of the National Archive of the Republic of Belarus (Minsk), who tell the story of the Jewish partisans and their contribution to the Soviet war effort behind German lines.
Tamara Vershitskaya, the Curator of the Museum of History and Regional Studies in Novogrudok, supplied the thirty-one documents that are the core of the historical veracity of this book, and translated them from their original Russian to English. Jack Kagan has added important material on his home town, Novogrudok, from which he escaped to the partisans at the age of fourteen.
This book makes clear just how hard the Jewish partisans fought, and how severe were the pressures against them, from the Germans always, and also at times from non-Jewish partisans.
Copies will be available for sale at the launch price of £12.50 (RRP £19.99), signed by the author.
£5 - All Proceeds go to the Holocaust & Education Department.
The Café will be open from 6pm for light snacks and refreshments.