by Jill Robinson | Jan 15, 2025
Join us at the Museum for a meaningful and thought-provoking day to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, featuring engaging talks and opportunities for reflection. Programme Highlights Curatorial Talk: “For a Better Future?” 11:00 – 12:00 Delve into the HMD 2025 theme, “For a...
by Jill Robinson | Jan 6, 2025
Join us on Sunday 19th January 13:00 – 16:00 for a screening of the acclaimed documentary The Commandant’s Shadow 🎬 The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with Maya Lasker-Wallfisch, daughter of Auschwitz survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and star of the...
by Jill Robinson | Dec 3, 2024
Are you aged 16–18? Enjoy writing essays? Want to enhance your university application, or fancy the chance to win £500? Take part in The Karen Becher Essay Award. This year’s title is: “Does free speech build or break a community?” Entries must be...
by Jill Robinson | Nov 6, 2024
Join us for a unique and moving event with Holocaust survivor Joan Salter MBE and Alice Wairimu Nderitu, UN Under-Secretary General and Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide. This special event, held in collaboration with the Aegis Trust, offers an...
by Jill Robinson | Aug 22, 2024
Malka was two when the Nazi invaders forced her family into the Jewish ghetto in Volodymyr-Volynskyi, a small city in present-day Ukraine. It was the first step in a campaign of mass murder. Rivka, Malka’s mother, kept Malka and her two older brothers alive...
by Jill Robinson | Aug 21, 2024
The National Holocaust Centre and Museum are delighted to welcome one of their beloved Holocaust survivor family, Janine Webber BEM, to offer her emotive testimony. Born in 1932 in Lwow, Poland, Janine endured unimaginable loss and hardship during the Holocaust. She...
by Jill Robinson | Aug 9, 2024
Holocaust Survivor Simon Winston BEm will be speakin gon Sunday 18th August. What is it like to be fored to hide from the Nazi’s in a pigsty as a child? To have your life saved by a scrubbing brush? And eventually to become a Nottingham Forest supporter in a...
by Jill Robinson | Aug 9, 2024
Holocaust Survivor Bob Norton will be offering his testimony on Sunday 11th August. Robert Norton was born in 1932 in a small town in Czechoslovakia and lived comfortably with his family until 1938 when the German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia was ceded to Germany...
by Jill Robinson | Aug 9, 2024
We are delighted to welcome Hedi Argent for our first Family Learning Workshop as part of our summer events. Hedi came to Britain as a refugee from Austria, escaping Nazi persecution. Hedi’s talk explores many themes such as: friendship, becoming a refugee as a child...
by Jill Robinson | Aug 9, 2024
Take a stroll through this beautiful, calm oasis filled with 16 sculptures and 1,200 white roses. Every rose tells a story. Visitors will get the opportunity to be toured around our beautiful memorial gardens by a guide. Place a stone at the Children’s Memorial....
