The Council’s Human Rights Champion Cllr Sarah Bevan has invited Professor Ladislaus Lob, a survivor of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, to give the address at this year’s Bath Holocaust Memorial Day event commemorating all those targeted by the Nazis before and during World War II.
Members of the public, council officers, church leaders and members of community groups are all invited to attend the free event on Friday 27 January at 6pm in the Guildhall, Bath.
Cllr Bevan explained how she came to know the holocaust survivor Professor Lob, Emeritus Professor of German at Sussex University: “I was reading one of Professor Lob’s translations of a Hungarian holocaust memoire earlier this year, and noticed that Professor Lob had met that author in Bergen-Belsen camp as a child of 11 years old.
“His is truly a remarkable childhood survival story and one of the most moving and inspirational accounts I have encountered in my role as Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Member Champion for Human Rights.
“I am extremely pleased that having contacted him through one of his tutees, Dr Hanna Diamond, herself now a lecturer at Bath University, he has agreed to travel to Bath from his home in Brighton to lead us in our commemorative event.”
The High Sheriff of Somerset, John Cullum, will attend the memorial event with The Right Worshipful Mayor of Bath, Cllr Brian Chalker, and The Chairman of Bath & North East Somerset Council Cllr Peter Edwards and members of the public.
