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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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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‘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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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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LIFE EXPERIENECES: SYRIA
This week we have a takeover by three University of Huddersfield students who recently interviewed other students from Rwanda, Syria and Nigeria about their experiences of war, displacement and genocide. All those interviewed currently live in Huddersfield.
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An Education Interrupted
Education is vital for a healthy society. For children, school is a huge part of their lives. However, for those children affected by the Holocaust, whether as refugees or internees in camps and ghettos, their …
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