Early June and mid October a group of Expat Club members will travel to the city of Krakow for a weekend with the objective to visit the concentration and extermination camps of Auschwitz. To prepare for the first trip, we organise a special preparation meeting for which the wider Expat Club community is invited.
We will watch a documentary on the holocaust, but for the occasion we also invited historian Martin King who will give a short history of antisemitism, the Nazi persecution of the Jews and Auschwitz. Martin will publish a book soon on the subject, while having writing several other war-related books. A few years ago he won an Emmy award for his documentary “Searching for Augusta: the Forgotten Angel of Bastogne”, about a Belgian nurse who visited her family in Bastogne for Christmas in 1944 and who rescued the lives of many US soldiers.
Martin King is a highly qualified British Military Historian/Lecturer who’s had the honour of reintroducing many US, British and German veterans to the WWII battlefields where they fought. He lives in Belgium near Antwerp where he spends his time writing, lecturing, working with veteran organisations and visiting European battlefields. He is a British citizen who has been resident in Belgium since 1981. Previous to that he attended Wakefield Technical and Arts College and followed a course in Teacher Training and European History. In 1981 he decided to continue his academic career firstly with a teacher training course at the famous Berlitz Language School, and secondly with a degree course in European History at the ULB University in Brussels, where he also began studying military history. In 2000 he was offered a position at Antwerp University.
Location
We are meeting in the Expat Club offices in The Louise Center on Avenue Louise 279. You are welcome from 18h45 but we actually start at 19h00. Trams 93 and 94, bus 38 and 60, Vleurgat/Louise stop. And just a 5-8 minutes walking from tram 7 and 81, and bus 54 if you get off at Avenue Louise. There is a little Carrefour on the corner of the building, but the entrance is right across the tram stop. Click here for a Google Maps link.
Early June and mid October a group of Expat Club members will travel to the city of Krakow for a weekend with the objective to visit the concentration and extermination camps of Auschwitz. To prepare for the first trip, we organise a special preparation meeting for which the wider Expat Club community is invited.
We will watch a documentary on the holocaust, but for the occasion we also invited historian Martin King who will give a short history of antisemitism, the Nazi persecution of the Jews and Auschwitz. Martin will publish a book soon on the subject, while having writing several other war-related books. A few years ago he won an Emmy award for his documentary “Searching for Augusta: the Forgotten Angel of Bastogne”, about a Belgian nurse who visited her family in Bastogne for Christmas in 1944 and who rescued the lives of many US soldiers.
Martin King is a highly qualified British Military Historian/Lecturer who’s had the honour of reintroducing many US, British and German veterans to the WWII battlefields where they fought. He lives in Belgium near Antwerp where he spends his time writing, lecturing, working with veteran organisations and visiting European battlefields. He is a British citizen who has been resident in Belgium since 1981. Previous to that he attended Wakefield Technical and Arts College and followed a course in Teacher Training and European History. In 1981 he decided to continue his academic career firstly with a teacher training course at the famous Berlitz Language School, and secondly with a degree course in European History at the ULB University in Brussels, where he also began studying military history. In 2000 he was offered a position at Antwerp University.
Location
We are meeting in the Expat Club offices in The Louise Center on Avenue Louise 279. You are welcome from 18h45 but we actually start at 19h00. Trams 93 and 94, bus 38 and 60, Vleurgat/Louise stop. And just a 5-8 minutes walking from tram 7 and 81, and bus 54 if you get off at Avenue Louise. There is a little Carrefour on the corner of the building, but the entrance is right across the tram stop. Click here for a Google Maps link.
