Category: Memorialisation and Remembrance

Messages Of Hope – Remembering Srebrenica

Written by Staff Team
July 22, 2021

Today marks the end of the genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia in 1995. Srebrenica was the worst atrocity on European soil since the Holocaust. Families, friends and loved ones were torn apart and 8,000 innocent people … Keep reading

Travelling Historians: Where Hitler Stood

Written by Dr Chelsea Sambells and Hannah Randall
June 15, 2021

Chelsea, our Head of Research, and Hannah, our Learning Assistant, recently discovered that they both love to travel (and drink wine, eat chocolate, and read, amongst other things). Coincidentally, we have visited many historical sites … Keep reading

Reclaiming the Pink Triangle: LGBT+ people and the Holocaust

Written by Alex Joseph
February 24, 2021

How can a symbol used for persecution become a symbol for liberation and dignity? Our Visitor Operations Manager writes about the persecution of LGBT+ people by the Nazis, and the community's subsequent work to reclaim their own narrative. Keep reading

Black and white photo of men wearing striped prison uniforms with downward-facing triangles and numbers

Why the Holocaust is important to me, to time and why it should be to you

Written by Tobias Leech
January 26, 2021

The Holocaust: an event everyone has at the very least heard of, be it in a classroom, media or news. But why do *I* still care about it? How one day, and 6 million deaths, … Keep reading

Kindertransport Memorial Gardens

Written by Dr Amy Williams
May 26, 2020

Guest blogger Amy Williams writes of the peace that natural spaces can give us in difficult times. Keep reading

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Messages Of Hope – Remembering Srebrenica

Travelling Historians: Where Hitler Stood

Reclaiming the Pink Triangle: LGBT+ people and the Holocaust

Why the Holocaust is important to me, to time and why it should be to you

Kindertransport Memorial Gardens