Lesson From The Holocaust: A Tonbridge talk on one family’s experience
On Monday 29 April, Duncan Lustig-Prean gave a talk to boys and staff called ‘A Lesson From The Holocaust’.
Duncan spoke about the life of his mother, Erica Lustig-Prean (1930-2022), who was saved as a ‘Kindertransport’ child: the name given to the rescue efforts which brought thousands of refugee children, the vast majority of them Jewish, to Britain from Nazi Germany.
His extremely moving talk reflected on one family’s experience of the Holocaust and included a presentation of photographs and documents from the period.
There were also some historic items for those attending to see and handle, such as a passport stamped with a red J for Jew, used by Duncan’s grandmother and mother when leaving Germany.
Duncan spoke, too, of more recent genocides, and drew parallels between the rhetoric of the German press from 1933 and that of today’s media regarding the migrant crisis facing Europe.
Following the talk, the Interfaith Societies (Exploring Christianity, the Islamic Society and the Jewish Society) put on a garden party, to mark the beginning of the warmer weather, which was very well attended.
