ABRAHAM Events: Friday 11th Mar: Simon Parkin

Published: Tue, 03/08/22

A British Wartime Scandal

Jewish Refugees interned as suspected Nazi Spies

1940-45

Fri 11 Mar 11.15am followed by question and answers

Speaker: Simon Parkin
an award-winning British journalist and author.

Simon Parkin is a contributing writer for the New Yorker, regularly writes for The Guardian and The Observer newspapers. His previous nonfiction book, A Game of Birds and Wolves, shortlisted for The Mountbatten Prize, and optioned for film by Steven Spielberg. Named a finalist in the Foreign Press Association Media Awards and recipient of 2 awards from the Society of Professional Journalists. Simon Parkin lives in West Sussex, England.’

Rave reviews for his new book: The Island of the Extraordinary Captives.

"Vivid and moving..."
Sunday Times
"Taut, compelling, and impossible to put down"
Daily Express
"Eye-opening, insightful and brilliantly written"
Daily Mirror
"Meticulously researched"
Literary Review

Simons publisher, have set up a discount code: JQZTWHET The code should be entered at checkout where the message 'Have a coupon?' appears. Only at Primrose Hill Books.

Chair for this presentation is John Blaskey
Link to Profile

Roll Call

Collecting Food Bins

An internment camp on the Isle of Man 1941

The speaker will address the following and many other interesting facts:

• Injustices That May Never Be Repaired”:
The Internment Scandal
• When Churchill Arrested Britain’s Jewish Refugees
• How and when this amazing travesty
of justice was resolved?

Followed by Q&A from you the audience.

To enter the meeting, please use the Zoom link – which opens 11,00 am London time Friday 4th of March.

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