Holocaust Memorial Lecture: Hungarian Holocaust Survivor John Dobai
Oxford University Chabad Society invites you to Holocaust Memorial Lecture in honour of Holocaust Remembrance Day – Yom Hashoah.

John Dobai, 89, lived through World War Two as a child in Nazi-occupied Budapest, Hungary. In 1944, Germany invaded Hungary, quickly introduced harsh antisemitic policies and Mr Dobai’s father was sent to a forced labour camp. All Jewish people in Budapest were forced to live in ghettos, wear yellow stars of David on their clothes and could not go to school. As the Soviets neared the country, the Nazis and Hungarian fascists commenced a brutal campaign of killings against the 60,000 Jews living in the “international ghetto” of safehouses. Mr Dobai’s grandparents were two of 45,000 Jewish people who were massacred by gunshot and drowning in the Danube river, and two aunts and a cousin, who was just 17, were also killed. He and his parents were saved when the Soviets took control of the city before the killings were complete.

Buffet reception at 18:00 – RSVP for lecture/buffet at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddj6h_iQYRJjxJAxW9XXSNaMm2ZY5OtRKXzu15kUlve-ynWg/viewform
Date: 5 May 2024, 19:00 (Sunday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Venue: Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
Speaker: John Dobai
Organiser: Oxford Chabad Society
Part of: Oxford Chabad Society
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddj6h_iQYRJjxJAxW9XXSNaMm2ZY5OtRKXzu15kUlve-ynWg/viewform
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Belinda Clark