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Lecture

Lydia Bauman
Beyond These Walls: The Writings of Janina Bauman

Sunday 16.03.2025

How to watch

This lecture starts on 16 March at 5:00pm (UK).

Summary

In this talk, Lydia Bauman will introduce her mother’s wartime accounts of her escape from the Warsaw Ghetto and subsequent struggle to belong in postwar Poland before the family’s forced relocation to Israel and then the UK. Janina Bauman’s writings pose the timely question of how to remain human in challenging and inhuman conditions.

Lydia Bauman

An image of Lydia Bauman

Lydia Bauman is an artist and art historian, graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art and a long time educator at the National Gallery, London.