Diaspora: What happened after Görlitz?
World War II caused massive change across the globe. No international community was affected as much as the Jews.
What was life like for these former Görlitzers in their new homelands?
This is what we aim to discuss on this special evening, in conversation with visiting Jewish Görlitz descendants and other voices about this subject.
Dr. Barbara Warnock- The Wiener Holocaust Library
Dr Barbara Warnock Dr. Barbara Warnock is the Senior Curator and Head of Education at The Wiener Holocaust Library, where she has curated the exhibitions Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust, Berlin-London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon, and Forgotten Victims: The Nazi Genocide of the Roma and Sinti, amongst others. She is the author (with John March) of Berlin-London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon (2019), a Spectator Book of the Year, and a number of articles on Jewish refugee history and the Nazi persecution of Roma. She obtained her Doctorate in Austrian history from Birkbeck College, University of London, in 2016. She was for many years a history teacher and examiner.
Honoring the legacy. Mourning the loss. Finding hope in our history.