The life-long work of a Holocaust educator is being commemorated in a series of events at the University of Leicester, and with a memorial service at Leicester synagogue.
Sara Elkes, who died in September, was well known for her work with the Elkhanan Association for Inter-Community Understanding and her Inter-Faith Work Camps in Leicester.
Two lectures in her memory are being organised by the university’s Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Lithuanian-born Ms Elkes was sent with her brother, Joel, to the UK in 1938. Their father was an internationally known physician in Kovno and was head of the Jewish ghetto of Kovno during the Nazi occupation. He died in Dachau, but Ms Elkes’s mother survived and moved to Israel.
Professor Aubrey Newman, honorary associate director of the Stanley Burton Centre, said: “Both Sara and Joel spent a great deal of time and energy in bringing the story of their father’s struggles in the service of the Jewish community of Kovno to a wider audience, and they chose the Stanley Burton Centre as the host of a series of lectures named in honour of their parents, and dealing with various aspects of the Holocaust, especially in eastern Europe.”
Ms Elkes, who is survived by her brother, now 102, was buried in Israel.
