Do you run a #Scouts or #Explorers group? Take over Holocaust Centre North for the day and explore our exhibition, discover how archives are protected, design your own exhibition and more.
📧 Email hcn@hud.ac.uk to secure your place
#WeAreYouthUnited #YouthUnitedFoundation #HeritageYouthPartnerhsip
Our opening times have changed!
We are open Monday - Thursday, 10am - 5pm
#OnThisDay in 1945, British forces liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. They found 60,000 prisoners, all in need of urgent medical aid. Due to intentional neglect, the camp was overcrowded, and disease and starvation were rampant.
📷Holocaust Centre North Archive, courtesy of the Gill family
On Yom HaShoah, we remember the six million Jewish men, women, and children murdered during the The Holocaust.
#OnThisDay in 1941 the Nazis occupied Salonika (Thessaloniki). Salonika had one of the oldest and largest Jewish communities in Greece of about 50,000 people.
After the Holocaust there was fewer than 2,000 Jews living in Salonika.
📷 Salonika, Greece, July 1942 -USHMM
#OnThisDay in 1940 Denmark was occupied by the Nazis. Unlike other European countries, the King and Danish government continued to govern until 1943. Denmark was able to save an estimated 90% of its Jewish community from Nazi capture by sending them to neutral Sweden.
📷National Museum of Denmark
Today we are looking back on the artworks produced by Jordan Baseman. Her video work follows Lillian Black MBE’s reflection on her father Holocaust survival and on the inherited responsibility of living with that history.
Today is the last day to apply for this years artist in residency programmes!
On Easter Sunday in 1945, Iby, along with other female prisoners, were liberated by the American Army whilst on a death march towards Bergen-Belsen.
To read more about Iby’s story, visit our website.
holocaustcentrenorth.org.uk/stories/iby-...
Matt Smith’s restaged archive photographs invite viewers to contemplate how Germany’s §175 legal code, which was used until 1994 to incriminate same-sex desire, affected the perception of casual gestures between friends or relatives.
Wishing all those celebrating a happy Passover - Chag Sameach!
This treasured Haggadah, published in Austria, belonged to Ilse Hyman who was born in Vienna on 23rd December 1924, and came to the UK on the Kindertransport in 1938.
📷Holocaust Centre North Archive, courtesy of Martin Hyman
We are excited to announce that we will be working with the University of Huddersfield on a project to embed British Sign Language into our permanent exhibition.
In preparation, some of our staff, volunteers and university partners have been learning their names.
Chebo Roitter Pavez interweaved 16 Holocaust survivors’ voices to chart the rise of Nazi ideology and the escalating persecution of Jewish communities across Europe. His layered writing-drawings foreground resilience and warn how fascism can re-emerge if unchallenged.
It's not too late to see the temporary exhibition from the Centre of Archaeology, presenting the results of archaeological investigations into historical heritage sites of the Nama and Ovaherero people in present-day Namibia.
Visit us at the University of Huddersfield to find out more.
Last week our Head of Learning was in Manchester with the Anne Frank Trust running a workshop for their annual ambassador conference. The workshop focused on Val and Ibi Ginsburg using a drawing technique inspired by Laura Fisher’s work, highlighting the power of connection.
#HolocaustEducation
Celebrating the work from our residencies!
Laura Fisher’s knitted blankets reproduced Red Cross telegrams sent by people imprisoned in concentration camps to loved ones overseas. The work pairs the physical comfort of a warm blanket with a family’s longing for closeness amid separation.
We are closed for #Easter weekend, from Thursday 2nd March, reopening again on Tuesday 7th March.
We are closed for #Easter weekend, from Thursday 2nd March, reopening again on Tuesday 7th March.
Do you run a #Scouts or #Explorers group in Kirklees?
Take over Holocaust Centre North for the day and explore our exhibition, discover how archives are protected, design your own exhibition and more.
📧 Email hcn@hud.ac.uk to secure your place
#WeAreYouthUnited #YouthUnitedFoundation
We are hosting online drop in sessions for our Memorial Gestures Residency Programme tomorrow 24th March at 12.30 and 5.30pm. Sign up via our website!
The remote residencies are 8 months long and paid at £6,000. Plus travel and materials budget. Applications close April 7th, 10AM (GMT).
#OnThisDay in 1933 the first Nazi concentration camp, Dachau, opens. Dachau was originally for political opponents but was later extended to other minorities. Between 1933 and 1945, over 188,000 people were imprisoned in Dachau and at least 28,000 died there. This number is likely to be much higher.
✨ Eid Mubarak to all who celebrate!✨
#OnThisDay in 1944 Hungary was occupied by the Nazi Germany.
This put 800,000 Jewish people in control of the Nazis, of these nearly 440,000 people were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where most were murdered.
📷German Soldiers supervising the deportation of Jews, Hungary, 1944 – Yad Vashem
Join us to watch #Transit, our next #filmscreening in partnership with @Culturesof_
Transit (2018) is a drama by Christian Petzold that blends WWII-era narrative with a modern setting to create a haunting, timeless story of exile.
For more information and to book your tickets, head to our website.
Do you run a #Scouts or #Explorers group in Kirklees?
Take over Holocaust Centre North for the day and explore our exhibition, discover how archives are protected, design your own exhibition and more.
📧 Email hcn@hud.ac.uk to secure your place
#WeAreYouthUnited #YouthUnitedFoundation
Our Memorial Gestures Residency Programme is back offering 5 funded residency opportunities! Apply until April 7th, 10AM (GMT).
Check out our website for more information:
holocaustcentrenorth.org.uk/events/
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Fettle Animation Workshop on Sunday for #WorldBookDay & #InternationalWomensDay! 🎬
It was inspiring to see so much creativity and thoughtful storytelling from all the young people.
#CreativeWorkshops #Animation #Storytelling #SurvivorsOfTheHolocaust
Happy International Women's Day.
Iby, Berta and Trude are just three of many strong, independent women in our archive who broke many glass ceilings in their lifetimes.
To find out more about their stories, visit us this week.
#InternationalWomensDay
Join us tomorrow at Holocaust Centre North for a free, family friendly day of activities for World Book Day and International Women's Day.
#FamilyDaysOutKirklees #IWD2026
It's not too late to the Centre of Archaeology's exhibition presenting the results of archaeological investigations into historical heritage sites of the Nama and Ovaherero people in present-day Namibia.
Visit us to find out more:
📍 Holocaust Centre North
🕙 10am - 4pm, Monday - Thursday
Our Memorial Gestures Residency Programme is back offering 5 funded residency opportunities! Our remote residencies are 8 months long and funded at £6000 each with additonal budget for travel, materials and more! Apply until April 7th, 10AM (GMT).
holocaustcentrenorth.org.uk/blog/memoria...
