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• AGM followed by: Mr Prins’s Journey to Bath and the story of the Bath-Alkmaar Barrel Organ

  

• Speakers: Aletta Stevens & Chris Davies (Bath-Alkmaar Twinning Association)

• Our AGM will be followed by the following talk: In 1940, Dutch-Jewish refugee Eli Prins from Alkmaar arrived in Bath after a last-minute escape from the Nazis. As a member of the Air Raid Precautions during the war he met Jimmie Wills of the Rotary Club. Together they instigated the adoption of Alkmaar and a fundraising campaign to help the child victims of the Dutch Hunger Winter. This act of solidarity inspired a friendship that has lasted for more than 75 years. Aletta Stevens’s book gives a vivid reconstruction of the escape, chronicles the experience of war in both cities, and reveals how the friendship developed. Chris Davies will talk about the barrel organ that is currently on view at the Guildhall and was used to collect money for Alkmaar.

St Mary's Bathwick Church Hall

31-May-2022

06 : 30 : PM