• Mann at War

    Manx Museum Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man, United Kingdom

    The role that the Isle of Man and its people have played in conflict from the 18th Century to present day

    Free
  • Marianne Grant Holocaust Artworks

    Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Argyle Street, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

    Marianne Grant was a Jewish artist and Holocaust survivor from Prague who settled in Glasgow after the end of World War II. She uniquely recorded in drawings her experiences of imprisonment in the concentration camp-ghetto Theresienstadt, the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, German slave labour camps and Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

    Free
  • Lucie Rie: Ceramics and Buttons

    York Art Gallery Exhibition Square, York, Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    The ceramics and buttons produced by one of the most respected potters of the 20th Century are on show in a major new exhibition at the Centre of Ceramic Art

    £7.50
  • Internment – Living with the Wire

    Manx Museum Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man, United Kingdom

    Discover more about ‘life behind the wire’ and the different ways that interned artists recorded the world around them

    Free
  • Refuge: The Art of Belonging

    Abbot Hall Art Gallery Kendal, Cumbria, United Kingdom

    This exhibition tells the story of artists who entered Britain between 1933 and 1945 as a result of Nazi occupation

    Free – £7.70
  • The Mad Silkman: Zika & Lida Ascher: Textiles and Fashion

    The Museum of Decorative Arts 17. listopadu Street No.2, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic

    The story of Zika and Lída Ascher who left Czechoslovakia before the outbreak of WW2 and built a textile empire in the United Kingdom which supplied fabrics to the international fashion industry from the 40‘s.

  • Anya Lewin: More than Stories: A Film Trilogy

    John Hansard Gallery 142-144 Above Bar Street, Southampton, United Kingdom

    More than Stories is an exhibition comprising a trilogy of films inspired by Anya Lewin’s family photographs and stories, and their interconnections with history and public archives. Each film has at its heart the haunted memories of Jewish life embedded in a particular story passed down to Lewin by her father.

  • Jewish History Month 2019

    The theme of this year’s Jewish History Month is Big Screen Little Screen, Jews in British Cinema and Television.

  • Albert Reuss in Mousehole

    Penlee House Gallery & Museum Morrab Road, Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom

    Interior II (Stones and Wood), oil on canvas, 1971, by Albert Reuss Penlee House Museum and Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall The Artist as Refugee This exhibition commemorates Albert Reuss (1889-1975) who was a Jewish émigré artist. Born in Vienna, he fled to England in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution, losing family, possessions and his reputation as […]

  • Poetry Book Display

    The National Poetry Library Level 5, Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, United Kingdom

    A display of books by eleven poets from the National Poetry Library collection of refugee poets, or descendents of refugees, who came to Britain from Nazi Europe

  • René Halkett – from Bauhaus to Cornwall

    Falmouth Art Gallery Municipal Buildings, The Moor, Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom

    On the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Bauhaus, this exhibition showcases the work of one of its students, René Halkett (1900-1983), who studied under the renowned artists Klee and Kandinsky.

    Free
  • Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Exhibition

    The Aram Gallery 110 Drury Lane, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom

    During the mid-1930s and 1940s the Isokon flats and bar became a hub for creatives, including Bauhaus professors Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy. The three produced furniture, architecture and graphic art for Jack Pritchard’s Isokon design company.

  • Hans Keller Centenary – Belcea Quartet

    Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street, London, United Kingdom

    On Hans Keller’s birthday itself, the Belcea Quartet perform Haydn’s Op.76 No.2 and Britten’s Third Quartet (which Britten dedicated to Keller).

    £14 – £16
  • Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Talk with authors Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund

    Daunt Books 51 South End Road, London, United Kingdom

    The hugely influential Lawn Road Flats, or Isokon building, was commissioned by visionary couple Jack and Molly Pritchard and designed by architect Wells Coates. Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain (Batsford) by Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund tells the extraordinary story of Isokon, and how its network of residents helped shape modern Britain.

    £5
  • Four Parts of a Folding Screen

    Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square, London, United Kingdom

    Based on documents found in Berlin archives, Four Parts of a Folding Screen explores exclusion, statelessness and the legalised theft and sale of everyday family possessions by the National Socialist regime.

  • Hans Keller Centenary Celebration

    Clare Hall Herschel Road, Cambridge, Cambridge

    Cambridge University Library (home of the Hans Keller Archive), the Faculty of Music and Clare Hall combine in a day of talks, discussion and music celebrating Hans Keller’s Centenary.

  • The art market under the Occupation 1940-1944

    Mémorial de la Shoah 17, rue Geoffroy l’Asnier, Paris, France

    In the summer of 1941, the French government began confiscating businesses, real estate, financial assets and art works from Jews across the country. Victims of both Nazi and Vichy laws, French Jews were stripped of their property and excluded from every sphere of political, social and economic life – a prelude to their physical elimination. Meanwhile, during the Occupation of 1940-1944, France’s art market thrived.