| Notes: | Philipp Manes spent two years in the Czech ghetto of Theresienstadt, where he played a minor role in the Jewish self-administration. He also organised over 500 cultural events, ranging from lectures, to play-readings, poetry competitions and concerts. These helped to maintain the morale and integrity of his fellows’ identity in a way that can now be recognised as offering resistance to the Nazis. In his last months he wrote an extraordinary 986 page account of his experiences, which breaks off in mid-sentence when he and his wife were deported to Auschwitz, where they were among the last people to go into the gas chambers.
The book’s editors Ben Barkow and Klaus Leist will talk about the book and read passages from it. The session will be chaired by Victoria Glendinning. |
| Notes: | Victoria Glendinning talks to Anne Sebba about Leonard Woolf, exploring his career as a writer and political thinker, his devotion to his wife Virginia and his complicated relationship with his Jewishness. Henry Goodman reads passages from Woolf’s fiction and non fiction, some of it unpublished today.
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