As part of Holocaust Remembrance Month, tomorrow at 6 p.m. the Centro Sefarad-Israel is organising a conference entitled Auschwitz through the eyes of a child. The drawings of Thomas Geve, which will feature the testimony of his daughter Yifat and the translator of his biography, Laura Miñano. Both of them will examine in depth the importance of Thomas Geve’s testimony.
Thomas Geve was deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp in 1943. He managed to survive for almost two years. His drawings of camp life were one of the most graphic testimonies to the Nazi horror. After liberation, his 79 drawings became one of the most important graphic testimonies of camp life. Thomas Geve later published his biography Barbed Wire and Rifles: The Testimony of a Child Survivor of the Holocaust, in which he lends his voice to all those victims silenced by a dehumanising and atrocious death. The lecture can be followed on the Centro Sefarad-Israel’s YouTube channel.
