A former Newcastle teacher is returning to the city to share the story of her father's gruelling experience in concentration camps as part of events to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day.
Marta Josephs will speak in Newcastle this January about her late dad Andrew Frankel, a Hungarian Jew who survived two camps in Austria and later settled with his young family in England. Former chemistry teacher Marta, who has given talks here before but is no longer based in the regon, will be telling her father's story at Discovery Museum as part of a free programme of events.
Her talk will be on Holocaust Memorial Day itself, January 26, and she said: “It is very hard to tell dad’s story as he died not long after I started telling it. Talking about my wonderful father always makes me very emotional, but I feel the burden of the second generation to keep telling these stories so what the survivors went through stands as a warning to future generations."
