Name: Captain Guillon – The Cruel Price of Resistance in South West France
Start: 2025-11-12T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-12T21:30:00+00:00
Location: Redland Quaker Meeting House

February 2025
Our House: Stories of the Holocaust
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Lisa Lipman talks to journalist and radio producer Jo Glanville about her BBC radio documentary Our House, in which she meets Berliners who have researched the history of the Jewish families who once lived in their homes. Their discoveries are an intimate and moving portrait of lives that were turned upside down and offer a … Continue reading The Jewish Christian relationship: parent and child or siblings?
Kidnapped
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Another film based on a true story, Kidnapped is a historical drama that uncovers an uncomfortable tale of antisemitism and child abuse at the hands of the Catholic church. It is Bologna,1858, when the six-year-old Jewish boy, Edgardo Mortara, is taken from his family by the Papal States and raised as a Catholic. What follows is the … Continue reading The Jewish Christian relationship: parent and child or siblings?
March 2025
Circus Jews under National Socialism
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Tracing their legacies back to the golden age of circus, this talk charts the successes of the Jewish circus families, their tours and their specialty acts, painting a vivid picture of their legacies. Together we will discover their fates, as people and as businesses, throughout the years of the Nazi regime. Telling these stories with … Continue reading The Jewish Christian relationship: parent and child or siblings?
The Small World of Sammy Lee
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Directed by Ken Hughes, who was ‘fascinated by Jews and Jewish culture,’ The Small World of Sammy Lee ‘is one of the few overt attempts to put British Jewish life on screen’ (Andrew Pulver, The Guardian, 2016). Adapted from an original BBC television play, this gritty black and white crime film follows hustler and strip club compere, … Continue reading The Jewish Christian relationship: parent and child or siblings?
May 2025
Bella Chagall – a String of Pearls and the Golden Chain
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Marc Chagall frequently painted his wife, Bella; her cultural contribution, though, is not so well known. In her two posthumously published works, the world of her youth, her Hasidic upbringing in pre-war Vitebsk come to life, noisily and brightly, through the eyes of a girl jostling for a better view in the women’s gallery of … Continue reading The Jewish Christian relationship: parent and child or siblings?
September 2025
A Serious Man
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Academy Award-winning directors Joel and Ethan Coen return to their comedy roots with this original and darkly humorous story set in Minnesota about one ordinary man’s quest to become a serious man. Physics professor Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) can’t believe his life - his wife is leaving him for his best friend, his unemployed brother … Continue reading The Jewish Christian relationship: parent and child or siblings?
Elena: A Hand Made Life
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Elena: A Hand Made Life Miriam Gold • London Lives were bent in the furnaces of the twentieth century, but Granny was unbroken. With a stethoscope, a jar of herring and a hearing aid occasionally switched on, she forged an extraordinary life. Dr Elena Zadik ran through the twentieth century without looking back. A refugee … Continue reading Elena: A Hand Made Life
October 2025
Keeping the Faith
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In this romantic comedy, best friends since childhood, Rabbi Jacob Schram and Father Brian Finn are dynamic and popular young men living and working on New York’s Upper West side. When Anna Reilly, once their childhood friend and now grown into a beautiful and successful corporate executive, suddenly returns to the city, she re-enters both … Continue reading The Jewish Christian relationship: parent and child or siblings?
It’s About Time
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Why does Easter 'move about'? And why doesn't Christmas? Why might Muslims return from the mosque disappointed at the end of Ramadan? Why can you not find out the date of Chinese New Year 2028? Why does February only have 28 days in a normal year? Is the Jewish calendar really unreasonable? In this session, … Continue reading The Jewish Christian relationship: parent and child or siblings?
November 2025
Captain Guillon – The Cruel Price of Resistance in South West France
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This is the story of an ordinary human being who showed remarkable moral and physical courage in demonstrating solidarity and support for Jewish refugees who, mistakenly, thought they would be safe from Nazi persecution by fleeing to the “Free Zone” in Southern France. As Captain of the Gendarmerie in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Lucien Guillon risked his personal … Continue reading The Jewish Christian relationship: parent and child or siblings?

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