Marie Stein (11 April 1929 - 16 July 2016) - presented by Gabriel Stein

Marie Stein (11 April 1929 - 16 July 2016) - presented by Gabriel Stein

A talk, hosted by Bangor University, to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day 2021 will be held online on Wednesday 27 January, from 1 - 2p.m.

Be the light in the darkness is the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2021.

The speaker will be Gabriel Stein who tells the story of how his family survived the Holocaust. Gabriel was born in Łódź in western Poland. From December 1939 to June 1941, the family moved to in Warsaw, eventually being placed in the ghetto there, and then back to the Łódź (Litzmannstadt) Ghetto from June 1941 until liberation in January 1945.The talk is free and open to everyone.

Holocaust Memorial Day has taken place in the UK since 2001, with over 7,700 local activities taking place on or around 27 January each year. This is the twelfth year it has taken place in Gwynedd. Between 1941 and 1945, the Nazis attempted to annihilate all of Europe’s Jews. This systematic and planned attempt to murder European Jewry is known as the Holocaust (The Shoah in Hebrew). From the time they assumed power in 1933, the Nazis used propaganda, persecution, and legislation to deny human and civil rights to Jews. They used centuries of anti-Semitism as their foundation. By the end of the Holocaust, six million Jewish men, women and children had perished in ghettos, mass-shootings, in concentration camps and extermination camps.

For further details please contact Professor Nathan Abrams, n.abrams@bangor.ac.uk  

Publication date: 12 January 2021