FILM TALK | "Gaza, It Rhymes With Me" Holocaust Survivors and descendants against the Genocide
The evening will comprise a showing of Helena Aksentijevic’s film about the group "Holocaust Survivors and Descendants Against the Genocide", a group which attends every march and other events supporting Palestine.
Following the film there will be a discussion between the films subjects and Luca Salice, Chair of Westminster PSC. This will be open to questions from the audience.
SPEAKERS
Professor Haim Bresheeth-Zabner: Speaker
Haim 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.
His films include "A State of Danger" (1989) on the first Intifada and "London's Burning: (2012) on the London disturbances. His books include "Introducing the Holocaust" (1992, 1997) with S Hood, and "An Army Like No Other, How Israel Defence Forces made a Nation" (2020).
Haim has written extensively on Palestine for many publications including Haaretz and Al-Ahraam Weekly. Haim is the subject of a film by Helena Aksentijevic "Under the Rubble" (2024) about the Gaza Holocaust. Haim was recently arrested under the Terrorism act after speaking at a pro-Palestine event, but later charges were dropped.
Mark Etkind: Speaker
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' - a group that attends most Palestinian Solidarity marches.
Doctor Agnes Kory: Speaker
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.
Agnes has been a life-long Zionist, who was critical of the `Israeli treatment of Palestinians, but has recently become an anti-zionist after seeing the genocide Israel is committing against the Palestinians in Gaza and is often seen on Palestinian Solidarity Marches and events."
Stephen Kapos: Speaker
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.
Stephen came to the United Kingdom following the Hungarian uprising in 1956. He trained as an architect and raised his family here
. Stephen is an anti-Zionist activist and has become a familiar face on Palestinian Solidarity Marches, where he addresses the marchers, and at other pro-Palestinian events. Stephen has been extensively interviewed, both on film and in print, by Double Down News, Skwarkbox, Owen Jones, Al-Jazeera, Middle East Eye, Byline Times, and the Independent. Stephen has been the subject of a Film by Helena Aksentijevic, "Stephen Kapos, Holocaust Survivor" (2020)
Stephens experiences as a child resonate strongly with him when he watches the experiences of children in Gaza." Stephen has been interviewed by the police in connection with his part in the demonstration on the 18th of January
Luca Salice: Moderator
Luca Salice is a translator and visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster. He has for many years been an activist with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. He is currently Chair of Westminster Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
Helena Aksentijevic – Filmmaker
Helena Aksentijević is a filmmaker and photographer. “Gaza, it Rhymes With Me", is one of a series of documentary films about people who support the Palestinian people’s right to a homeland, the right to return to their ancestral lands and live lives free from Occupation, oppression, apartheid and genocide.
