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.
