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Through Our Eyes exhibition at Holocaust Centre North, Huddersfield

About this activity

The exhibition can be viewed during visitor opening times Monday to Thursday 10am to 5pm.

Through Our Eyes is a permanent exhibition about 16 children and young people who survived Nazi persecution across Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. They came to the North of England as refugees or survivors of the Holocaust, settled and made new lives here.

Through Our Eyes is an interactive, multi-media exhibition driven by survivor testimony. Visitors will see poignant personal photos of the survivors and their families and their original artefacts and documents, together with an original prisoner uniform and other artefacts from the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora. The survivors tell their stories of discrimination, persecution, escape, hiding, ghettos, forced labour, concentration camps and liberation through filmed testimony on six interactive touchscreens.

There is a reflective space at the end of the exhibition where visitors can learn about the survivors’ experiences when rebuilding their lives in the UK and explore a digital memorial to local families.

The exhibition contains photographs and video footage of concentration camps and atrocities that some visitors may find distressing. The exhibition is suitable for children and teenagers learning about the Holocaust in more detail, but not suitable for very young children.

Contacts

Holocaust Centre North

01484 471939

Dates and venues

  • Monday 17 May 2027 - 10:00am - 5:00pm, The exhibition can be viewed during visitor opening times Monday to Thursday 10am to 5pm and may run until the date shown. Please check the website under Further Information for any changes.
  • Tuesday 18 May 2027 - 10:00am - 5:00pm, The exhibition can be viewed during visitor opening times Monday to Thursday 10am to 5pm and may run until the date shown. Please check the website under Further Information for any changes.
  • Wednesday 19 May 2027 - 10:00am - 5:00pm, The exhibition can be viewed during visitor opening times Monday to Thursday 10am to 5pm and may run until the date shown. Please check the website under Further Information for any changes.
  • Thursday 20 May 2027 - 10:00am - 5:00pm, The exhibition can be viewed during visitor opening times Monday to Thursday 10am to 5pm and may run until the date shown. Please check the website under Further Information for any changes.

Further information

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