I've raised £1000 to support two charities in memory of Leslie Brent
Organised by Nigel Smith
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Leslie Brent was a dear friend and stalwart of Tufnell Park Film Club, sitting with his wife Carol in the front row week after week no matter what we were showing.
Over the years we came to learn more about Leslie's extraordinary life, both in conversation with Leslie and through his memoir, Sunday’s Child.
Leslie was born in Poland in 1924 and moved to Berlin in 1936 to avoid anti-Semitic persecution. With the rise of the Nazis, at the age of 13, he was sent to Britain on the first Kindertransport and attended Anna Essinger’s Bunce Court School in Kent.
Leslie went on to have a distinguished career as an immunologist and zoologist and was the co-discoverer with Nobel Prize winners Peter Medawar and Rupert Billingham of acquired immunological tolerance .
Leslie was posthumously awarded an MBE in the most recent New Year Honours for services to Holocaust education .
We will miss his friendship and the enthusiasm and support he showed us enormously.
On behalf of everyone at Tufnell Park Film Club we want to make a donation in his memory to two charities close to Leslie’s heart, the Holocaust Educational Trust and the Association of Jewish Refugees .
Getting to know Leslie has been a highlight of running Tufnell Park Film Club and we hope you’ll join us in raising funds for these two important organisations in his memory.
