Jewish Greens, with support from other Green Party special groups, invite you to join us for our Holocaust Memorial Day event, which will be held online, at 18:30 on Wednesday 22nd January 2025,  hearing the story of Alice Svarin told by her daughter Vera. Alice Svarin was a Slovakian Jew and how managed to survive the Nazi Holocaust. Explaining how they would have lived if it were not for the help from some local people risking their own lives. The presentation includes photographs, maps and clips of Alice telling the stories joined by a narrative by Vera facilitated by Generation to Generation

The meeting will be chaired by Green councillor and experienced holocaust educator Andrée Frieze.

Holocaust Memorial Day is an event to remember genocides throughout history and around the world, and work to ensure they never happen again. Sadly, we know looking around our world that acts of genocide are not a thing of the past, far less racism, prejudice and intolerance. Part of these memorialisation events is about hearing the stories of survivors, how societies become disfigured to the extent that they carry out the most appalling crimes. It is also hearing how people survived and families endured. This is important for all groups that wish to shape society and exert political power, including the Green Party.

This is event is supported by Green Party special interest groups and other groups including LGBTIQA+ Greens, Young Greens, Green Party Trade Union Group, Humanist Greens, Greens of Colour and Feminist Greens.

More information about the genocides commemorated on this day, and the stories of survivors, can be found at these websites:

Escape From Sobibor