Latest Past Events

TRACES – Voices of the Second Generation

Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol

This fifty-minute documentary film explores the Holocaust’s impact on the children of survivors, including recorded interviews. They share their families’ true stories and explore the complexities of having Holocaust survivors as parents. It is produced by Tracey Goldring who is founder of Searching for Identity, an organisation that works with second and third generation of … Continue reading TRACES – Voices of the Second Generation

£5

Berlin to London: An Emotional History of two Refugees

Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol

In this talk, Esther Saraga explores her complex and ambivalent relationships as daughter and academic to a vast collection of family papers concerned with my parents’ forced migration from Nazi Germany.  She recognised that the letters do not ‘speak for themselves’, but tell several different possible stories.   I have used the papers to explore ‘how … Continue reading Berlin to London: An Emotional History of two Refugees

£5

Shadow of the Day

Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol

Italy 2022, 128 mins, Italian (with English subtitles); Director Giuseppe Piccione, featuring Riccardo Scarmarcio, Benedetta Porcaroli The film is set in 1938 Italy.  Like the majority of his fellow Italians, decorated war veteran and restaurant manager Luciano is a staunch supporter of the country’s fascist regime. Shortly after the Italian racial laws are introduced, Anna, a … Continue reading Shadow of the Day

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