The online talk will be held on Zoom on Thursday 27th January 2022 at 7pm.
Booking opens on 5th January at 10am – The event is free of charge.
The speaker, Francis Morton (pictured above), joins from Generation 2 Generation (G2G), a registered charity that recruits and trains the descendants and friends of Holocaust survivors to present the survivor’s story, integrating first-hand survivor testimony.
In the online talk, Francis will tell his family’s story of ‘Letters of Love and Loss’. Francis Morton’s father, George Morton (originally Jiri Morgenstern), was born in 1918 in Brno, a sizeable town in Czechoslovakia, while his mother, Renée (née Stransky) was born a year later in Plsen, also in Czechoslovakia. They both came from fairly secular families, but maintained their Jewish identities.
Renée kept over 500 letters from her family and friends between 1938 and 1945, from which Francis has been able to reconstruct the lives and fate of her family; These letters include some from her then boyfriend, George, from which details of his life story have been uncovered.
Extracts from the letter are read and are accompanied by both personal and historical photographs.
This talk is suitable for young people of Year 10 and upwards.
After an introduction from a member of local Jewish community, Francis Morton’s talk will begin. There will be an opportunity for questions at the end, and the event will close with a prayer.
