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College of Arts and Humanities
SpeakerDr Rebecca Clifford
Speaker's BiographyRebecca Clifford is Associate Professor of Modern History at Swansea University. Her recent book on the postwar lives of child Holocaust survivors, 'Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust' (Yale University Press 2020), has been nominated for Britain's top non-fiction awards, long-listed for the Wingate Literary Prize, and named a Book of the Year 2020 by the Telegraph. She is now working on a book on the ‘Lingfield’ children, a group of child survivors brought to Britain in 1945 and 1946 who were cared for – and closely observed – by Anna Freud and her psychoanalytic circle. Her recent research has been funded by the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Holocaust Educational Foundation.
From: 28 Apr 2021, 1 p.m.To: 28 Apr 2021, 2 p.m.
Location: Online Event - Please see description
What circumstances shape what we can and cannot say when we tell the stories of our lives? In this talk, Rebecca Clifford will examine seventy-five years of oral history with child survivors of the Holocaust, considering how child survivors told their stories in changing historical contexts through the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries – and probing the connection between acts of speaking and later memories. This talk will be of interest not only to teachers and students of the Holocaust, but to anyone interested in storytelling, oral history, and the question of how we make sense of our earliest memories.
Contact: Cultural Institute - Swansea University (Email: cultural-institute@swansea.ac.uk)
Website: https://bit.ly/storiesandsilences
Event created by: m.t.hughes