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The People on the Beach: Journeys to Freedom After the Holocaust by Rosie Whitehouse

Date: Thursday 20th May

Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Price: £5.00 per ticket (Click HERE to book)

Event Type: Zoom Webinar

One summer’s night in 1946, over 1,000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidden and fought in forests and endured death marches—now they were taking on the Royal Navy, running the British blockade of Palestine. 

In this talk, we interview Rosie Whitehouse on her book ‘The People on the Beach’, which follows the footsteps of those secret passengers, from Eastern Europe to Israel via Germany and Italy, uncovering their extraordinary stories—some told for the first time. Who were those people on the beach? Where and what had they come from, and how had they survived? Why, after being liberated, did so many Jews still feel unsafe in Europe? How do we—and don’t we—remember the Holocaust today?

Rosie is a journalist specialising in Jewish life after the Holocaust. She writes for BBC Online, the Observer, The Independent, Tablet magazine, The Jewish Chronicle, Haaretz and others. A graduate of the London School of Economics, she is an historical advisor at the Vienna-based Centropa, a Jewish history institute.

 

This talk will be delivered as a Zoom Webinar.  You will receive an email 24 hours before the event containing a link to the talk and details for joining.  Please note that this email will be sent to the email address that you used to book your ticket.  Please contact the museum if you have any questions: museum@eppingforestdc.gov.uk

 

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