The National Holocaust Centre and Museum is located at Acre Edge Road, Laxton NG22 0PA. It is open from Sunday to Friday, 10.00am to 4.30pm (last entry 3.30pm) and the following events are taking place this summer:
Wednesdays 31st July and 21st August: Memorial Gardens tour
Take a stroll with an expert guide through this calm oasis of deep reflection, filled with roses, sculptures and 1,200 stories. Unique among Holocaust museums, their memorial gardens house 1,200 white roses, each dedicated to victims of the Holocaust. Read the dedication plaques – many written by their family of Holocaust survivors for loved ones lost. Learn more about the people behind them. Find the 16 sculptures dotted around this beautiful two-acre site. Place a stone on the Children’s Memorial to remember the 1.5 million children murdered by the Nazis.
Thursday 1st and Monday 19th August: Family Event with survivor Hedi Argent MBE
Special family learning events with the Centre’s educators and Hedi Argent, who escaped from Nazi persecution in Vienna. Hear Hedi talk about her life. Then explore objects and photos with her, to work out more of her life story. A creative thinking exercise for all the family, with a wonderful opportunity to ask Hedi questions yourselves.
Sunday 11th August: Meet the Holocaust Survivor: Bob Norton, Kindertransport Child
Now 92, Bob will tell his story of persecution and escape from Czechoslovakia, and how he built a new life in Nottingham.
Thursday 15th August: ‘Every Postcard Tells a Story’: The story of the Holocaust in picture postcards
Talk by collector Jonathan Smith on his extensive archive of postcards from Austria, Hungary and Poland, illustrating attitudes before, during and after the Holocaust.
Sunday 18th August: Meet the Holocaust Survivor: Simon Winston BEM
Aged only six, Simon went on the run for two years from the Nazis, hiding in farms in what is now Ukraine. Now 86 and a proud Nottingham Forest fan, he will tell you his miraculous story of survival.
For further details, visit www.holocaust.org.uk.