Chaos Dragon and the Light

Please join us at 7pm on Holocaust Memorial Day, Wednesday 28 January,  with the film and life story of Marika Henriques, Hungarian Jew and survivor.

Click here for the website, here for the trailer and here for the Instagram link and see below for more details.

As a young girl, Marika Henriques was hidden from the Nazis in a Budapest cellar. She survived the Second World War only to find herself forced to flee Communist Hungary in her early 20s. Safely in Britain, she trained as a Jungian therapist. But it was the cathartic creation of extraordinary art that helped her to process her childhood trauma over several decades. Now in her 80s, she tells her story for the first time.

This documentary is the story of Marika Henriques – now in her 80s – who hid from the Nazis as a child in Budapest and escaped communist Hungary after the 1956 Uprising.  She was finally able to confront her childhood trauma through the creation of profound and powerful art.

The review in The Journal of Analytical Psychology states: “The cumulative impact is assaultive, inspiring, intriguing and moving by turns”   

The review in Outside In: “I shall carry this with me as I continue with my own inner work”