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Manchester mini conference Sunday 25 July 2021 (1.30pm – 5.30pm) LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER

The Manchester Regional Group is hosting its FIRST online mini-conference.

As already announced, we have arranged a mini-conference for SUNDAY 25 JULY 2021 which will be Zoomed into the homes of attendees. The programme (a full version of which can be found on our website) will be: https://www.jgsgb.org.uk/content/manchester-regional-group-mini-conference-20212



1.30pm Welcome Leigh Dworkin (Chairman JGSGB)

1.40pm Robert Dyson - From Budapest to Switzerland via Belsen: My Hungarian grand-mother's escape

2.50pm William Pimlott - YIVO (Vilna, New York, London): An archive and its British Jewish holdings

4.00pm Anna Douglas & Errol Gross - From Vilkaviskis to Salford: The Schoolboy and The Photographer

5.15pm Closing remarks – David Jacobs (JGSGB President)

5.25pm Close

There will be a small charge for registration to cover the Society’s costs. This will be £5 for members and £10 for non-members. The charge will cover all persons within a household and using the same electronic device.

Registration 

There are two ways to register for places at the Conference:

Online through the JGSGB Shopping Website with payments by PayPal: https://shop.jgsgb.org.uk/catalog/downloads
Completing the Registration Form which can be found here:

Manchester On-line mini-conference 2021_Registration Form


Payments will be acknowledged.


A Zoom link will follow after registration

If you have any queries about the Conference, please email: Manchester.genealogy@gmail.com

Anthony Rosenthal

Chairman JGSGB Manchester Regional Group

P.S.

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