Testimony and Book Event with Holocaust Survivor Hedi Argent

Join us as Holocaust Survivor Hedi Argent offers her moving testimony. Hedi will be ‘In Conversation’ with our Senior Educator Nicola Stauther as they discuss her book ‘The Day The Music Changed: How I Became A Refugee From Nazi Europe’.

Hedi’s book is intended for students towards the end of their primary school education or for those in their early years of secondary school. It is particularly relevant today as refugees fleeing from persecution arrive in our classrooms with different stories but with the same need for a safe place to call home.

This book is not about the Holocaust or about World War Two. It is about the events and conditions that led to war and to the worst crimes against humanity the world has ever known: crimes committed by ordinary people who listened to fake news and conspiracy theories. The stories are the true recollections of a Jewish child who has to learn how antisemitism feels as well as what it means, before becoming a refugee in England and having to learn how to become an “English Girl”.