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Dr Vincent Hunt is an award-winning former BBC producer and documentary-maker who turned to long-form narrative after 25 years in radio making social history programmes about the Civil Rights movement in the US, post-colonialism in Africa and The Troubles in Northern Ireland. After marrying a Latvian he became fascinated by the twisted and tragic history of a Baltic state sandwiched between two then-superpowers, Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, and set out to gather eyewitness stories of those turbulent times, translating them into English to add to the literature. The Holocaust is an inescapable part of this history, and Hunt found endless examples of the suffering inflicted on Jews during his travels. His talk highlights just a few examples as he traces the war experiences of Latvian Legionnaires in Latvia, Pomerania and Germany 1944-45. His doctorate, awarded this year, theorises his method of writing about the past, seeing the places where such significant things happened and blending oral history with history and journalistic discovery to ensure these memories and places are not forgotten.
Buffet reception 19:00. RSVP for buffet to mailto:info@oxfordchabad.org
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