2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, and the death marches in which concentration camp victims were forced to march west into Germany as the Red Army advanced from the east.

Primo Levi was an inmate of Auschwitz for 11 months (where life expectancy, if you were ‘spared’ for work, was three months). His highly acclaimed books about his experiences, rather than focusing on the appalling brutality of Auschwitz, shed light on the way human beings behave in these most extreme conditions, and how some are better equipped to survive than others.

In this talk Galen Bartholomew will outline some aspects of the Third Reich between 1933 and 1945 in the belief that continued awareness of the Holocaust, the most hideous crime in modern history, will help to protect future generations.