Events
Voices of Justice: A Commemoration for Holocaust Memorial Day
THURSDAY, 29 JANUARY, 2026 • 1 PM
WIGMORE HALL, LONDON
The Nuremberg and Eichmann trials were seminal in bringing the full horrors of Nazi atrocities to the world; 2026 marks the 80th and 65th anniversaries of their verdicts. To mark this, the educational charity Learning from the Righteous and The Association of Jewish Refugees are staging ‘Voices of Justice’. Rather than focus on the defendants, the event will highlight the courageous eyewitnesses who gave voice to the victims. Extracts from their testimony, read by students from The German School of London and the Jewish Community Secondary School, will narrate a carefully selected programme of music designed to reflect the pan-European nature of the Holocaust.
Music will be performed by members of Ensemble 360 with special guests, including student-musicians from the schools and narrator Tim Franks.
This is the fourth annual commemorative concert that Wigmore Hall has hosted for Learning from the Righteous and the Association of Jewish Refugees. We are honoured to be part of the venue’s proud tradition of support for the capital’s Jewish refugees and their descendants, which started in the immediate post-war era.
The Lines We Draw: The Journalist, the Jew and an Argument about Identity
What’s it like to be a Jewish journalist broadcasting about the Middle East right now? Join author Tim Franks as he discusses his new book.
The Lines We Draw: Tim Franks and Anne Sebba
THURSDAY, 11 SEPTEMBER, 2025 • 7:30-9 PM
WESTMINSTER SYNAGOGUE
A moving journey through a Jewish family history, from BBC Newshour presenter Tim Franks. Tim Franks spent years as the BBC’s Middle East Correspondent, during that time, he was attacked as a self-hating Jew and as an Islamophobe – as a tool of competing, malign agendas. He always tried to respond with a journalist’s detached curiosity, drawing a clear line between his identity and his work. But one day, he asked himself: is that necessary? Is it such a combustible mix? And beyond the judgments of others: what does it mean to be Jewish?
Tim Franks 