Surviving History: The Holocaust Remembered
Exhibition: Jan 25, 2011 - Feb 20, 2011

Please Note: This Event Is Fully Booked
Launch Event, Jan 25,2011. 7pm. £5/C£3
Featuring
Gena Turgel MBE, Mark S Smith, Susan Weinberg, Performance by Leah Thorn,
Screening of award-winning Surviving History short film

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To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January 2011, Woolfson & Tay are honoured to present a multimedia exhibition and a host of distinguished guests - survivor Gena Turgel, author Mark S Smith, poet Leah Thorn and artist Susan Weinberg - at the launch event on 25 January 2011. For more information on the speakers, please see below.

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Program of events
7pm Opening speech by Southwark Councillor Mark Gettleson
7.05pm Performance by Leah Thorn
7.15pm Author Mark S. Smith
7.45pm Survivor Tsetimony Gena Turgel
8.45pm Q&A
9.00pm Susan Weinberg
9.20pm Film screening

Gena Turbel MBE

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Gena Turbel, born in Kracow in 1923, survived the Kracow ghetto, Plaszov concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Death March to Buchenwald concentration camp, and was eventually interned at Bergen-Belsen, where she was liberated by the British forces on 15 April 1945.

Mark S Smith

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Mark S Smith is a Jewish-American journalist and writer currently living near Loch Lomond, in Scotland. He was born in Los Angeles in 1960, and has traveled extensively as a journalist throughout Europe, the US, Middle East, Asia and South America. He is the author of Treblinka Survivor: the Life and Death of Hershl Sperling (History Press).

Leah Thorn

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Leah Thorn is a spoken word poet. At the heart of her writing is the autobiographical exploration of Jewish identity.Her work is anthologised in England and the States and 'My Amulet', her award-winning short film about English Ashkenazi identity and
assimilation, has been shown internationally at Film Festivals. www.leahthorn.com

Susan Weinberg

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Susan Weinberg is an artist and a genealogist. Her immersion in the history of the Jewish culture that once existed led to her body of work “Negative Space: The Silence Speaks Loudly.” She maintains a studio in Minneapolis, Minnesota where she lectures, writes and paints on family and cultural history.

Surviving History: Exhibition & Film

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The Surviving History exhibition was developed by the non-profit organisation Living Imprint, founded by Shivaun Woolfson and Frances Tay. It documents the testimony of 10 survivors in Vilnius, Lithuania. This traveling exhibition, featuring the work of US, UK and German artists Dwora Fried, Katie Dell-Kaufman, Birgit Muller, Mike Moran, Lynsey Cleaver and photographer Daniel Quinones has been exhibited in several places including Dublin, Vilnius, Cape Town and Shropshire. The accompanying short film has won several awards including the Ninth Imperial War Museum Film Festival Audience Poll. www.livingimprint.org

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Exhibition
25 Jan 2011 - 20 Feb 2011
Free Admission

Launch Event
25 Jan, 2011, 7pm
Entry: £5
Concession: £3 (students, unemployed, retired)



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