Product Description
Wednesday 25 July
1.15pm
FREE
This lunchtime lecture is a conversation between Museum Education Officer Dr Ari Lander and Holocaust survivor Peter Rossler.
“Inch by inch the spaces were stripped away, the public and private, the physical and mental, down to the final battle for the spaces that hold hope in the imagination and faith in the heart.”
Peter Rossler was nine years old when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia. In October 1941 the family was transported to Lodz Ghetto where the appalling conditions enforced by the Nazis killed both his parents. Peter and his brother Honza worked at numerous factories in Lodz Ghetto until August 1944, when they were transported to Auschwitz. Peter and his brother were eventually sent to labour camp Kaufering IV. When the camp was liquidated due to the advancing Allied armies they were marched 50 kilometres to Camp Allach. Here they were liberated on 30 April; the same day that Hitler committed suicide.
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