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As a gay high-performance runner, antifascist intellectual and sportswriter, Alex Natan was a quintessential outsider in Weimar Berlin. His marginal status also remained a constant during his forced emigration to Britain, as a precarious refugee in pre-war London, as a long-time internee during World War II, as well as a schoolteacher in the Midlands and author and journalist in post-war Britain and West Germany. This lecture will demonstrate how an unusual German Jew was affected by the ‘age of extremes’, making his life story quite typical of the predicaments of the 20th century.
Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme (20.9.2024)
online Workshop, 18th, 20th of November, 2nd, 9th December 2024
4.00-6.00 PM Berlin time
Monday 18 Nov 2024 04:00-6:00 PM Berlin time
Wednesday 20 Nov 2024 04:00-6:00 PM Berlin time
Monday 2 Dec 2024 04:00-6:00 PM Berlin time
Monday 9 Dec 2024 04:00-6:00 PM Berlin time
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The ability to accurately describe the past is not confined to historians alone. Artists use their creative expression to explore the cruelties of history, aiming to shape a more ethical present and future. In the case of Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, art is also mixed with activism and active efforts to preserve the memory of the victims and their cultural heritage. Kwiatkowski, whose grandfather was a prisoner of the Stutthof concentration camp, and whose wife’s Jewish family hid during the war in a forest near Rzeszów, has been leading an artistic and activist battle to fight antisemitism,…