Scottish Jewish Archives Centre Speaker Event

Scottish Jewish Archives Centre – Speaker Event (Michelle Gold)

SJAC ANNOUNCES A SPECIAL OPEN DAY EVENT 

Michele Gold 

author of Memories That Won’t Go Away – A Tribute to the Children of the Kindertransport

will give an illustrated talk at the Archives Centre on Sunday 12th April 2015 2.30pm

Michele Gold will talk about her Glasgow roots, her recently published book, Memories That Won’t Go Away – A Tribute to the Children of the Kindertransport and the work she does as an educator at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.

Michele’s late mother, who was a survivor from a Kindertransport out of Leipzig, Germany, inspired the book. Michele mother was naturalised by a Glasgow family …so Glasgow has a special place in her heart.

Michele’s 300-page book is a compilation of hundreds of stories and includes some of their rescuers. There are photographs of every child, together with his or her biography – some very brief, some several pages long – that all document a life that was saved.

The centre of the book cover gives a glimpse of one of the 43 postcards that Michele discovered her mother wrote to an uncle and aunt who lived in Zurich shortly after she arrived to the UK. Today these postcards are in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. How she became reunited with these postcards is a story unto itself.

See this review of Michele’s Book at http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Book-Review-Commemorating-the-kinder-394498    Michele will have special edition copies of her book for purchase at her talk.

Tickets Donation £6.00 (£5.00 for friends of SJAC). For tickets: call 0141 332 4911 or email sjac.org.uk All proceeds will assist SJAC with its work.