Dance of Life: Barbara Jackson
These images convey the comfortable settled life of middle-class Jewry in Germany and the gradual feeling of unease, separation and persecution that overcame them.
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New North London Synagogue East End Road, London, United Kingdom
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Josef Herman
Flowers Gallery 82 Kingsland Road, London, United KingdomThe first major exhibition for many years to trace the complex life journey of Polish-Jewish artist Josef Herman (1911-2000), from his escape from Nazi-occupied Europe in 1940 through his time spent in Glasgow, South Wales, London and Suffolk.
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Inspiration & Processes: Janet Haig
Hampstead School of Art Penrose Gardens, London, United KingdomJanet Haig is a Hampstead-based ceramicist, whose unique hand-crafted vessels and stoneware torsos have been shown in many galleries and featured in boutiques and magazines.
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A Ceramic Conversation
Hampstead School of Art Penrose Gardens, London, United KingdomJanet Haig is a Hampstead-based ceramicist, whose unique hand-crafted vessels and stoneware torsos have been shown in many galleries and featured in boutiques and magazines. This talk provides an opportunity to understand the life of a maker, to ask questions and share your views.
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Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art
Royal West of England Academy Queens Road, Bristol, United KingdomArtist refugees in the last hundred years and their influence on British art
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Albert Reuss Exhibition
Truro Cathedral High Cross, Truro, Cornwall, United KingdomThe works of Reuss are expected to attract art lovers and those interested in his story and will be an integral part of the Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 display and event.
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Child Survivors’ Drawings of the Genocide in Darfur
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThis exhibition features drawings by child survivors of the genocide and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Sudanese government forces and the Janjaweed militia against non-Arab Darfuri people since 2003.
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Talk: Albert Reuss, Artist and Refugee
Truro Cathedral High Cross, Truro, Cornwall, United KingdomTo commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on 27 January 1945, Susan Soyinka, Reuss’s biographer, will be in conversation with Revd John Halkes, who was a personal friend of the artist.
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George Him: A Polish Designer for Mid-Century Britain
The House of Illustration 2 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London, London, United KingdomSpanning George Him’s long and versatile career as both an independent designer and as one half of the prolific Lewitt-Him partnership (1933-1954), the exhibition will include iconic wartime propaganda posters for the Ministries of Food and Information, corporate branding for El Al airlines and adverts for clients like Schweppes, Technicolor, the Post Office and The Times.
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Dissent and Displacement: A Modern Story – Monica Petzal and Margarete Klopfleisch
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery 53 New Walk, Leicester, Leicester, United KingdomAn exhibition in two parts: wall-mounted prints by Monica Petzal; and sculptures and works on paper by Margarete Klopfleisch
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Dissent and Displacement Public Seminar Series
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery 53 New Walk, Leicester, Leicester, United KingdomLived and Imagined Histories : Some Thoughts on the Work of First and Second Generation (Jewish) Visual Artists
Monica Bohm-Duchen, initiator and Creative Director of the Insiders/Outsiders Festival, presents the series’ opening seminar, in honour of the new exhibition at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester.
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*Postponed* Another Eye: Women Refugee Photographers in Britain after 1933
Four Corners Gallery 121 Roman Road, London, United KingdomThis Women’s History Month, we celebrate some remarkable women who escaped Nazi persecution and helped to transform Britain’s photography scene.
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Naum Gabo
Tate St.Ives Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, Cornwall, United KingdomTate St Ives presents this major exhibition of one of the pioneers of constructivism, Naum Gabo.
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Jacques & Jacqueline Groag: Architect & Designer
The Isokon Gallery Lawn Road, London, United KingdomJacques Groag, architect and furniture designer, and Jacqueline Groag, textile and pattern designer, were two celebrated residents of the Isokon building in the 1940s and early 1950s.
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Between Two Worlds
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery Terrace Road, Buxton, United KingdomBetween Two Worlds explores the art created during this tumultuous period featuring work by John Minton, Fred Uhlman, Josef Herman and Ben Enwonwu. It draws exhibits from Derbyshire County Council’s collection, such as the bequest of Arto Funduklian, the son of Armenian émigrés, including work by Marc Chagall, Duncan Grant and Wyndham Lewis.
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Festival of Belonging
Manchester Central Library St Peter's Square, Manchester, United KingdomFrom March 7-14th – featuring one-off events and nights of comedy, theatre, storytelling, films and visual arts to examine how we assimilate in new places, explore what makes us feel that we belong and question what happens when we do not.
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Only the Violins Remain: Alma and Arnold Rosé
Royal Academy of Music Marylebone Rd, London, United KingdomThe story of a father and daughter – icons of Austrian musical life – whose careers were cut short by the Nazis. Arnold fled to London but Alma was imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she led the Women’s Orchestra and saved the lives of many women prisoners, before perishing in the camp.
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Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art
MOMA Machynlleth Heol Penrallt, Machynlleth, Powys, United KingdomThis exhibition looks at how artist refugees in the last hundred years have been received and influenced British art
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Leave to Land: The Kitchener Camp Rescue, 1939
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThe Kitchener Camp has been largely forgotten today, but in 1939 this derelict army base on the Kent coast became the scene of an extraordinary rescue in which 4,000 men were saved from the Holocaust.
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Leave to Land: The Kitchener Camp Rescue, 1939
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThe Kitchener Camp has been largely forgotten today, but in 1939 this derelict army base on the Kent coast became the scene of an extraordinary rescue in which 4,000 men were saved from the Holocaust.
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Leave to Land: The Kitchener Camp Rescue, 1939
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThe Kitchener Camp has been largely forgotten today, but in 1939 this derelict army base on the Kent coast became the scene of an extraordinary rescue in which 4,000 men were saved from the Holocaust.
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Leave to Land: The Kitchener Camp Rescue, 1939
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThe Kitchener Camp has been largely forgotten today, but in 1939 this derelict army base on the Kent coast became the scene of an extraordinary rescue in which 4,000 men were saved from the Holocaust.
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Leave to Land: The Kitchener Camp Rescue, 1939
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThe Kitchener Camp has been largely forgotten today, but in 1939 this derelict army base on the Kent coast became the scene of an extraordinary rescue in which 4,000 men were saved from the Holocaust.
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Leave to Land: The Kitchener Camp Rescue, 1939
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThe Kitchener Camp has been largely forgotten today, but in 1939 this derelict army base on the Kent coast became the scene of an extraordinary rescue in which 4,000 men were saved from the Holocaust.