Memorial Gestures 2 – Rey Conquer
"I wanted to know what happened when ordinary language ran out: the ways that people find to communicate in writing with those from whom they have been separated by war and persecution"
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Category: Internment
‘Enemy Aliens’ – the British interment camps on the Isle of Man
During the course of the war, numerous concentration camps were established across German-occupied Europe in order to hold Jews and others deemed ‘undesirable’ by the Nazi regime, becoming a symbol of oppression and violence. Lesser well …
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How a Jewish Scots Guard negotiated with Eichmann to bring a school to Leeds
Our mission at the Holocaust Centre North is to tell global histories through local stories. One almost forgotten local story is that of the ORT school in Leeds. The story begins in Berlin in 1937. …
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