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Yesterday, Wednesday 4 February, former Deputy Director of the Leo Baeck Institute London, Kinga Bloch, led a Library of Lost Books Search Day as part of this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day event at the University of Sussex.
The Leo Baeck Institute London is pleased to announce the programme for its 2026 Lecture Series, which explores how Germany’s turbulent past continues to influence its identity, politics, and collective memory today.
As the 120th anniversary of Alex Natan’s birth on 1 February 1906 approaches, the Leo Baeck Institute London invites people to discover his extraordinary life through our 2024 Lecture Series talk by Professor Kay Schiller.
Edith Tudor Hart, born Edith Suschitzky (1908–1973), was an émigré photographer and covert agent for the Soviet Union. Originally from Vienna, she trained in photography at the Bauhaus in Dessau.
Holocaust Memorial Day is observed annually on 27 January to commemorate the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet forces in 1945.
Applications for the 2027 LBI Year Book Essay Prize in German-Jewish Studies close in one month, on 28 February 2026.
Applications for the 2027 Leo Baeck Institute Year Book Essay Prize in German-Jewish Studies are closing soon on 28 February 2026, so eligible candidates are encouraged to apply now.​
Final call for applications: the Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme 2026/2027 (German academic year October 2026 – September 2027) invites PhD students working on German-Jewish history and culture to apply.​

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