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Finding Nemon – A talk on the sculptor Oscar Nemon
Wed 08 Jul
|Chigwell and Hainault Synagogue
Hybrid event organised by the Essex branch
Time & Location
08 Jul 2026, 20:00
Chigwell and Hainault Synagogue, Limes Ave, Chigwell IG7 5NT, UK
About the event
In this talk, Aurelia Young will trace Oscar Nemon’s (1906-1985) dramatic journey across Europe from his home in Croatia to seek refuge from the Nazis in England in the 1930s.
Nemon had to live with the knowledge that his mother had been murdered in the Holocaust and with his rejection by the parents of his English wife on the grounds that he was a penniless Jew.
Amongst Nemon’s many famous sitters were Sigmund Freud, Winston Churchill, Queen Elizabeth II, Margaret Thatcher, the Israeli diplomat Abba Eban, Prof Sir Ernst Chain and Princess Diana.
Aurelia Young grew up in Oxford running in and out of her father’s studio. She has spent the last twenty years researching the life of her remarkable enigmatic father and has co-authored a biography of him ‘Finding Nemon’. She is married to the politician, Lord Young of Cookham.
Hybrid event - attend in person or online via Zoom
Tickets
General Ticket
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£5.00
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£5.50
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