THE LAST JEW OF SIGHISOARA AND TRANSYLVANIAN SYNAGOGUES

When: 03/02/2010
Where: Spiro Ark Centre
Time: 18.30 for 19.00
Contact: 020 7723 9991
Price: £5 (+£1 online booking fee) - including wine and light refreshments
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The programme will include:

  • illustrated talk by JESSICA DOUGLAS-HOME: 'The Last Jew of Sighisoara and Transylvanian Synagogues'
  • talk by PETRU CLEJ: 'Attitudes towards the Holocaust - from frank admission to ugly denial'
  • film screening: 'Gruber's Journey' by Radu Gabrea

Jessica Douglas-Home is chairman of The Mihai Eminescu Trust. Founded in 1987 it devotes itself to working in Saxon Transylvania, a uniquely beautiful region of Romania. Its aims are to conserve and restore the region's historic built heritage, to revive the economic life of its village communes and to train indigenous craftsmen in new or forgotten skills.

Petru Clej is a freelance journalist, with 17 years experience with the BBC. He has a special interest in Jewish Romanian history and the Holocaust. He is currently co-editing the electronic newspaper ACUM, www.acum.tv

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