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: Representations of the Holocaust
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. Free tickets to the opening …
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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 2 – Ariane Schick
Around eighty years after my paternal grandparents and aunt became Holocaust refugees, I began reflecting on this part of my family’s past. In the midst of that, I applied for the Memorial Gestures Residency at …
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Shylock’s Shadow: Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’ and the Nazi takeover of theatres
In 1933, the Nazi Party sought to control every aspect of German culture, including theatre. Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice was appropriated by the Ministry of Propaganda to spread antisemitic propaganda.
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Holocaust Centre North’s screening of Three Minutes: A Lengthening 15/06/2023
In the Everyman Cinema Leeds, Holocaust Centre North hosted Bianca Stigter for a screening of her film Three Minutes: A Lengthening. The main event was preceded by Holocaust Centre North’s artist in residence April Lin’s …
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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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