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Lloyd Hatton, Labour MP for South Dorset, will host the event at Swanage School on Friday, May 2, alongside the Holocaust Educational Trust. The event will be held to commemorate Trevor Chadwick, a schoolmaster who quit his job to help evacuate Jewish child refugees before the Second World War. He organised the evacuation of 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia in what became known as the Czech Kindertransport.
During this period, he helped to forge papers for the refugees and personally escorted children from Prague to London. He returned to England in the summer of 1939 and resumed his role as a teacher in Swanage. The event will be an opportunity to learn more about the life of Trevor Chadwick, Kindertransport and Britain’s position during the Holocaust.
Audience participation will be encouraged with the event ending in a public Q&A. Set to join MP Lloyd in conversation will be Martin Winstone, a senior historical advisor to the Holocaust Educational Trust and Hilary Hodsman, a second-generation Holocaust survivor. The event on Friday will be from 6.
30pm to 8pm in the Swanage School Main Hall located on High Street, Swanage, BH19 2PH. The event is open to everyone in the community and will be free to all attendees. Donations are however encouraged and will go directly to cover the cost of the event and to the Holocaust Educational Trust.
The Holocaust Educational Trust has been providing Holocaust education in the UK for the last 30 years..
