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“Gaza it Rhymes With Me” – Holocaust Survivors and Descendants against the Genocide

“Holocaust Survivors and Descendants Against the Genocide”, a group which attends every march and other events supporting Palestine, are filmed showing them both on the streets of London, participating in marches and engaging with the public, and also talk about their families history, either as survivors of the Holocaust, or as descendants of survivors of the Holocaust.
Featuring
Professor Haim Bresheeth-Zabner is a filmmaker, photographer and author, who has published extensively on cinematic history and Palestine. Haim has been a political activist for over 50 years. Haim was recently arrested under the Terrorism act after speaking at a pro-Palestine event, but later charges were dropped.
Mark Etkind is the son of a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto and various concentration camps including Buchenwald and co-organiser of ‘Holocaust survivors and descendants against the Gaza genocide’
Doctor Agnes Kory founded the Bela Bartok Center for Musicianship in London.
She is a teacher, performer and researcher in historical musicology.
When Agnes was born in Budapest, in 1944, her father was in Mauthausen Concentration camp, and her mother was in hiding on false papers.
Stephen Kapos, Architect, Artist and Activist, is a child survivor of the Holocaust. During the Siege of Budapest, when Stephen was seven, he found himself without his family, moving from hiding place to hiding place on false papers.