Memorial Gestures 3 – Laura Nathan
“Above all, I wanted to celebrate the flaws, the vulnerability, and the resilience which makes us human.”
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Category: Life after
Memorial Gestures – Exhibition at Sunny Bank Mills
Memorial Gestures runs from Friday 6 to Saturday 28 June 2025 at The 1912 Mill, Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley, Pudsey, West Yorkshire. The exhibition opens Thursday 5 June at 6pm. Exhibition Information: Memorial Gestures Curated …
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Memorial Gestures 2 – Irina Razumovskaya
“It was their lives, but what will be left when it only becomes our history?”
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Robert Eaglestone on “Poetry After Auschwitz: Walking in West Cornwall with the Ghost of Great-Aunt Hilde”
Holocaust poetry is hard to write and can horrify for the wrong reasons: the “so-called artistic rendering of the naked physical pain of those who were beaten down by rifle butts contains, however distantly, the …
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Memorial Gestures – Laura Fisher
Hello, I’m Laura Fisher! I am honored to have been chosen to create artistic responses to the archive at Holocaust Centre North through the Memorial Gestures artist’s residency, and I’m excited to introduce myself to …
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Love out of the Darkness
Boy meets girl. They fall in love, they marry, have a family and live happily ever after. The age-old fairy-tale, but what happens when that initial meeting is only made possible because of unimaginable horror? …
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Child Survivors of the Holocaust
9 May marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Theresienstadt concentration camp. This guest blog from Hayley Shaw describes the experiences of child survivors who came to the UK.
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