Holocaust Memorial Day 2022 activities
As part of the Imperial War Museum Partnership programme, some of the partners in the project will be uploading and sharing their work on Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January 2021.
Holocaust Education and Learning Centre (Huddersfield)
Online Talk: On 26 January 2022 at 17.00 HELC are broadcasting a survivor talk (via Zoom) with Martin Kapel
Centre for the Movement of People (Aberystwyth University)
Online Talk: This talk includes an eyewitness account by child refugee Renate Collins who fled as a five year old from Prague to South Wales on a Kindertransport. The talk will be introduced by Dr Andrea Hammel, who will give a ten minute introduction and direct the talk. There will be an opportunity to ask questions at the end.
Suitable for: Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5, and equivalent, students studying or with an interest in studying History, English, Modern Languages, Social Sciences, and related subjects. Teachers and members of school staff, as always, are welcome too and participants can join as individuals from school/college or home, or as a group from school/college.
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museum
Online Talk: Noreen will tell the story of two Polish Jewish families whose lives were tragically changed when Germany invaded Poland in 1939.
In different ways, they were affected by two of the most evil people on the planet, Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler, and their stories will unfold during the Presentation.
Manchester Jewish Museum
Short Film shared on Social Media: A short film created by young people from King David High School and Manchester College in collaboration with local artist Becky Prestwich will be shared via the Museum’s social media, website and emails and will be accompanied by a young person’s takeover of Manchester Jewish Museum’s
Instagram channel @mcrjewishmuseum
Bodmin Keep Army Museum
And we have two videos on our You Tube channel of an online talk by Susan Soyinka.
From East End to Land’s End: Author Susan Soyinka’s gives a talk about her book ‘From East End to Land’s End’ . Find out about the Second World War evacuation of Jews’ Free School (JFS) in the East End of London to Mousehole in Cornwall 81 years ago about 100 JFS pupils and five of their teachers, together with thousands of other London evacuees, embarked on the lengthy and exhausting train journey from Paddington to Penzance. Learn about this unique story of mutual love, acceptance and integration during the Second World War.
Albert Reuss in Mousehole The Artist as Refugee author talk by Susan Soyinka
Watch author Susan Soyinka in an online talk where you can hear her compelling account of the life and work of Albert Reuss (1889 -1975), a Jewish painter and sculptor who developed a uniquely individual style. Born in Vienna, he emigrated to England in 1938, losing many members of his family, all his possessions, and the reputation he had built up as an artist prior to his departure. He was helped to escape from Vienna by Cornishman and Quaker, John Sturge Stephens. Reuss continued to work as an artist in England although his style changed dramatically, reflecting the trauma he had suffered. Reuss held numerous exhibitions in galleries throughout England and in 1948, he and his wife Rosa moved to Mousehole where they established the ARRA Gallery.
One Story, Many Voices – A Touring Sound Installation
From Saturday 19th February until Saturday 12th March we will be hosting the touring sound exhibit from Imperial War Museum London .
Come and experience the unique sound installation exhibit entitled ‘One Story, Many Voices’ it tells stories based on the Second World War and Holocaust from across the United Kingdom. The stories have been written by well-known writers from across the UK. Cornwall’s story has been written by Mercedes Kemp of Wildworks, and is narrated by Ed Rowe, Kernow King.
