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Sir Martin's January Books
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Churchill, Power of Words
Churchill understood the power of words, as seen in these 200 speech extracts with introductions by Martin
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Atlas of the Holocaust
27 January 1945, the Red Army reaches Auschwitz-Birkenau, a date now recognised as the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust
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“We have to think of the future and not of the past”
Churchill to the House of Commons
18 June 1940
330 words/1 ½ minute read
We have to think of the future and not of the past. This also applies in a small way to our own affairs at home. There are many who would hold an inquest in the House of Commons on the conduct of the Governments – and of Parliaments, for they are in it, too – during the years which led up to this catastrophe. They seek to indict those who were responsible for the guidance of our affairs. This also would be a foolish and pernicious process. There are too many in it. Let each man search his conscience and search his speeches. I frequently search mine.
Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future. (CONTINUE READING)
Churchill inspects bomb damage in London during the early stages of the Blitz,10 September 1940
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 From Esther Gilbert
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Why is this night different from all other nights?
The Holocaust – what we need to know and what we can learn from it
From a talk delivered at Limmud UK
Part 1: What happened?*
2000 words/10 minute read
Welcome! I am Esther Gilbert. I was married to the historian Martin Gilbert who wrote 12 books on different aspects of the Holocaust, among his 88 published books. I am named after my grandmother Esther Chaya Shapiro who lived with her family in a shtetl, a small town in what is now northwest Ukraine. On a bright August day in 1942, two weeks before the Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah, Esther Chaya, her husband Berel and their daughters Mindel, who was 22 and Dena who was about 14, were taken, along with 10,000 other Jews from their town, from a few surrounding towns and Jewish refugees among them, to the forest near the edge of their town, where they were killed. In trying to learn more about Esther Chaya, her life and her death, I came to Martin and his work and developed an interest in survivor memoirs.
I wanted to learn what happened, not only the deaths of my family members but what happened across Europe to millions of Jewish families, how it happened, why it happened, and how we can make some sense of this, how we can put this history into perspective and apply it to our own lives today.
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Ivor Lunzer with Esther; photo by Edwin Shuker
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“The March in the Footsteps of Heroes” 
from Auschwitz to Zilina
200 words/1 minute read
ICEJ, the International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem will lead their memorial walk, dedicated to Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, along the Vrba-Wetzler escape route. Now in its seventh year, two walks will take place in 2020, 12-18 July or 2-8 August to accommodate the growing number of participants. (CONTINUE READING)
August 2019 participants
50 participants from Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Great Britain and Israel.
The youngest was 9 years old, the oldest was 74.
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Chattanooga Times Free Press, https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/life/entertainment/story/2019/dec/07/and-earth-peace-good-will-toward-men/509916/, “Pastor Bo: 'And on earth peace, good will toward men'” by Pastor Bo Wagner, posted 7 December 2019:
“What say we look to the actual history of WWI, minus Snoopy and the Red Baron? One of my favorite history books out of my extensive collection is The First World War, A Complete History, by Martin Gilbert. In it he describes a most unusual Christmas on the front lines in 1914.
'“That Christmas, a spontaneous outburst of pacific feeling took place in war zones, as troops of every European army celebrated their Saviour's birth. Fro nearly five months the war had been fought with mounting severity. Suddenly, as darkness fell on Christmas Eve, there was, in sections of the front line, a moment of peaceable behavior.”'
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Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre
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 Turning Points in Modern Jewish History
Course, led by Professor Shirli Gilbert:
Wednesday evenings, 22, 29 January, 5,12 February
Presented in partnership with Mill Hill United Synagogue and Brondesbury Park United Synagogue
 
Displaced Jews: Renewal in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Lecture, Professor Shirli Gilbert
20 January
Presented in partnership with the LSJS and March of the Living
 
For more info: https://www.smglc.org.uk |
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