Tag: ‘Vrba Wetzler Memorial’
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Odhaľovanie Šoa:
Resistance and Effort of the Jews to Informe about Genocide
expert conference
Wednesday 26th August 2015Conference, which is prepared in cooperation with Institute of History SAV, is the top event of this year Memoriál Vrba-Wetzler (Po stopách hrdinov). Lectures of historians will happen during the whole day at Stanica and they will be open to public. Their topic will be mainly new facts and results of researches about recent holocaust [...]
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Mojše Band and Memorial Vrba-Wetzler
concert, exhibition and discussion
Tuesday 25th August 2015, 7 pm, Nová synagógaConcert of authentic band of Slovak cimbalom player Michal Paľko will be a welcoming for participants of 2nd Vrba-Wetzler Memorial, 130-kilometers long foot march made after the famous escape of a couple from concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in April 1944. Couple did this escape to inform world about this death factory. Photo exhibition of Jindřich Buxbaum, [...]
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Vrba Wetzler Memorial
discussion
Tuesday 19. 8., 5.00pm, Artforum bookstoreA meeting with Fedor Gál and others participants of walking march from Oświęcim to Žilina, which is reconstruction of the escape of Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler from concentration camp and has an ambition to become a tradition.
Seventy years ago, two Slovak Jews, who escaped from Oświęcim, came to Žilina after two-week march. They [...]
