Marking Holocaust Memorial Day this week, Sue Levi Hughes gave the inspiring presentation about Jewish resistance featured below to our CLP meeting.

Sue also told members:

“The holocaust is part of my family history.

Both my parents and grandparents were refugees from Nazi Germany in the late 30s after several years when jews were being persecuted, driven out of their homes and physically attacked. My aunt, uncle and cousins perished in Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen.

The history of the holocaust is part of my present.

It is a part of me, ingrained into me. I live with it and I live with the trauma my parents unwittingly passed down to me and my sister.

Their fear that we would be recognised as Jews outside of the Jewish area we lived became my reality and I ditched my recognisably Jewish name as soon as I could.

Now I am proud to use my Jewish surname Levi. My mother’s fear of not having enough food means I can’t throw food away and my sister hoards food. The holocaust is part of me.”