Category: Memorialisation and Remembrance

In Conversation: Richard Wood & Elisa

Written by Elisa
October 29, 2026

In Dark Road Without Horizon Richard Wood explores the six sites of Aktion T4 and considers how they are memorialised and remembered. From 1939 to 1945, the Aktion T4 programme murdered an estimated 300,000 German … Keep reading

Memorial Gestures 3 – Laura Nathan

Written by Laura Nathan
June 24, 2025

“Above all, I wanted to celebrate the flaws, the vulnerability, and the resilience which makes us human.” Keep reading

Memorial Gestures 2 – Rey Conquer

Written by Rey Conquer
May 21, 2025

"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" Keep reading

Memorial Gestures – Exhibition at Sunny Bank Mills

Posted by Paula
April 26, 2025

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 … Keep reading

Memorial Gestures 2 – Irina Razumovskaya

Written by Irina Razumovskaya
March 11, 2025

“It was their lives, but what will be left when it only becomes our history?” Keep reading

Robert Eaglestone on “Poetry After Auschwitz: Walking in West Cornwall with the Ghost of Great-Aunt Hilde”

Written by Robert Eaglestone
December 12, 2024

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 … Keep reading

Memorial Gestures – Laura Fisher

Written by Laura Fisher
February 9, 2023

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 … Keep reading

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