{"title": "IWM In Conversation: Elżbieta Moczarska", "start": "2026-11-09T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "IWM London", "address": "", "price": "£20", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.iwm.org.uk/event-tickets/81022?catID=75771&branches.branchID=2992", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/holocaust"], "description": "A talk marking the UK launch of Conversations with an Executioner, followed by a question-and-answer session and after-hours access to IWM London's Holocaust Galleries. Elżbieta Moczarska, translator Sean Gasper Bye and award-winning historian Roger Moorhouse discuss the book by her late father, Kazimierz Moczarski, a Polish writer, journalist and soldier who fought the Nazi occupation as part of the resistance. Imprisoned by Poland's Communist regime after the war, Moczarski shared a cell with Nazi war criminal Jürgen Stroop, the man responsible for the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and wrote the book as a first-hand account of the 255 days they spent together.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/iwm-in-conversation-elzbieta-moczarska-50308/", "official_url": "https://www.iwm.org.uk/events/iwm-in-conversation-elzbieta-moczarska-conversations-with-an-executioner", "image": "https://noky.io/images/63d81ef2b151e7b5f2535ddc5cab4ce6e79f766f98edc2565896239e44a07bf7-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-09T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "IWM London", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "10.11| Spotkanie Biblioteki Polskiej POSK: Kazimierz Moczarski „Rozmowy z katem\"", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Polish Social and Cultural Association", "address": "King Street 238-246, W6 0RF London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/wwii", "literature"], "description": "An event in the series of the Polish Library at POSK, held in the library's reading room. Elżbieta Moczarska will talk about the English edition of Kazimierz Moczarski's book \"Rozmowy z katem\", published in English as \"Conversations with an Executioner: '255 Days with the Nazi who Destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto'\", translated by Sean Gasper Bye. 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It follows Hannah Arendt, artist Charlotte Salomon and teenage Communist Eva Daube, three Jewish women interned in 1940 at Camp Gurs, the largest French internment camp near the Spanish border, from their arrest to their escape. Drawing on testimony, archival research and Arendt's own interviews, and weaving cabaret, physical theatre, satire and Brechtian theatricality, it uncovers the little-known story of thousands of refugees fleeing Hitler who were interned by the French state. The cast is led by Mai Weisz as Hannah Arendt, alongside Anna Eckhard as Charlotte Salomon and Ariella Barnett as Eva Daube, with Pat Dynowska as Trude, Helen Goldwyn as Agathe and Anja Fahlenkamp as musical composition & arrangement/ensemble.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/2026-the-banality-of-evil-hannah-arendt-france-1940-59988/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/30d6dd73c0956cb0fa15d0477009377c0385baa1242fc1548d8154af16be02a4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Translation Salon: Kafkaesque", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The London Library", "address": "St James's Square 14, SW1Y 4LG London", "price": "From £8", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/the-londonlibrary/items/758158/availability/-12732753/book/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/translation"], "description": "Translation Salon: Kafkaesque is an in-person talk in the New Room at The London Library, with a bar opening beforehand. It is the inaugural edition of the Library's new Translation Salon, a series exploring language and the art of translation, held in partnership with the Jewish Literary Foundation. Translator and host Daniel Hahn speaks with Maïa Hruska, whose first book, Kafkaesque, tells the story of the translators who saved Franz Kafka's work from oblivion, from Primo Levi and Milena Jesenská to Bruno Schulz and Jorge Luis Borges. The evening invites conversation about Kafka's work, translation and some of the greatest minds, tragedies and absurdities of the twentieth century.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/translation-salon-kafkaesque-39393/", "official_url": "https://www.londonlibrary.co.uk/whats-on/translation-salon-kafkaesque", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9ce23fdd61b6ea4cd6280bd351dc55f3a36674f44fe062e6e85c917eebd6c122-2000.webp"}, {"title": "IWM In Conversation: Damien Lewis and Rye Barcott", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Churchill War Rooms", "address": "King Charles Street, SW1A 2AQ London", "price": "£20", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.iwm.org.uk/event-tickets/80963?catID=75712&branches.branchID=2995", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/wwii", "literature/memoir"], "description": "An evening talk at the Churchill War Rooms in which authors Damien Lewis and Rye Barcott discuss courage, leadership, service and sacrifice, from the Second World War to conflicts and politics today. It is held by Imperial War Museums as part of its IWM In Conversation series and draws on British and American stories of people who chose service when it came at a cost. Barcott, a Marine Corps veteran and New York Times bestselling author, will speak about his book 'Courage Can Save Us', while war reporter and historian Damien Lewis presents 'Behind Enemy Lines'. After the talk there is a Q&A, a book signing and the chance to explore the historic rooms.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/iwm-in-conversation-damien-lewis-and-rye-barcott-50307/", "official_url": "https://www.iwm.org.uk/events/iwm-in-conversation-damien-lewis-and-rye-barcott", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2d0c3f69c5b7d3df5e711cce7d8f0f2603f123e647d7aa85afeac1011f6e5294-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Reading Group on Quand tu écouteras cette chanson by Lola Lafon", "start": "2026-11-12T18:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "£7 standard, £5 members", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "7.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_6972196.TcsSection_1931314", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/contemporary-fiction", "history/holocaust"], "description": "A reading group held in French, dedicated to Lola Lafon's Quand tu écouteras cette chanson, with the author not present in person. In the book, Lola Lafon recounts the night she spent in the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam. She recalls her feelings while wandering in the empty apartment as though a threat were ever-present, reconnecting with the past of her own family, victims of the Holocaust.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/reading-group-on-quand-tu-ecouteras-cette-chanson-by-lola-la-74190/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agenda/reading-group-on-quand-tu-ecouteras-cette-chanson-by-lola-lafon/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6ebd0d770ac3fca0edd9cefc227dcd5b5fc7af19818a33c44d4b2d7a234a265e-2000.webp"}]}