Hybrid
Streamed via Zoom and in person at Wellcome Collection
Holocaust Memorial Day 2023
Monday 30 January 2023 | 13:00-13:45
From 1 to 1.45pm on Monday 30 January 2023, Doughty Street Chambers will host a hybrid (in person and online) event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. We will remember the millions murdered in the Holocaust under Nazi Persecution, and in the genocides which followed.
Following the theme of this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day of “ordinary people”, we will hear from members of Doughty Street and their relations. Christopher Sallon KC's brother-in-law, John Gould Rubin, will be speaking on what happened to his grandparents who were living in Vienna, and how this has since been recognised by the Remembrance Stones initiative; Patrick O'Connor KC - 'A German Eye-witness’; Ben Cooper KC will be interviewing his mother, Lili Lion, about the story of the life and persecution of his Jewish great-grandfather in Nazi Germany. Although he was decorated by Germany for his bravery as a doctor in WW1, he was forbidden from practising his profession in the 1930s because he was Jewish. He had founded the German boy scout movement after he met Baden-Powell. However, the Nazi party co-opted the members into the Hitler Youth. He was arrested by the Gestapo under the Nuremberg Laws for treason in 1938 then stood trial for continuing a banned organisation by working covertly with the scouts.; and Marisa Cohen will read from Anne Frank's diary.
The event will be chaired by Adam Wagner.
John Gould Rubin - In June 2022, John and his four sisters organized to have a "Stone of Remembrance" installed outside the apartment building in Vienna where their mother grew up to commemorate the murder of her parents in 1942 by the Nazis. John will deliver the same speech as he did that day at the DSC Holocaust Memorial Day event.
John is a theatre director and producer in New York, and has worked throughout the US as well as Europe, including London.
