Holocaust Memorial Week at the University

22 Jan 2014

Programme of events for the week, including Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January.

Monday, 27 January to Thursday, 30 January: Exhibitlon
University Place and Students' Union

• Pictures and maps illustrating the Genocides (a third location may be announced).

Monday, 27 January: Film screening of "Paperclips"
Council Chambers, Students' Union (5pm)

• The official Holocaust Memorial Day is dedicated to the Jewish Genocide: the Holocaust.
• Whitwell Middle School in rural Tennessee is the setting for this documentary about an extraordinary experiment in Holocaust education. Struggling to grasp the concept of six million Holocaust victims, the students decide to collect six million paper clips to better understand the extent of this crime against humanity. The film details how the students met Holocaust survivors from around the world and how the experience transformed them and their community.

Wednesday, 29 January: Panel discussion - 'Displacement, Immigration and Integration: a UK and Manchester perspective'

Samuel Alexander Building, Arts Lecture Theatre (6-7pm)

• With the UN theme for HMD this year being 'Journeys' the discussion will be rooted in historical events but with a contemporary perspective, looking at the recent political conversations and media rhetoric around immigration; the experiences of immigrants and asylum seekers and how this has affected social cohesion and community today.
  
  Speakers:
  - Yaron Matras: an expert on Romany language and culture and key worker of Multilingual Manchester and the MigRom project which looks at integrating Romany immigrants into the local community.
  - Jennifer Carson: works in the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Instutute - her research focuses on the humanitarian assistance provided to refugees and displaced persons since 1945 and has recently been involved in two exhibitions exploring population displacement and humanitarian assistance during and after the Second World War.
  - Johnathan Darling: specialises in asylum and forced migration and works on how urban spaces are experienced by asylum seekers as well as the rise of social movements which seek to challenge current asylum policies within the UK.

Thursday, 30 January: Reading of memoirs by Julie V. Gottlieb (Sheffield)
Room A7, Samuel Alexander Building (time to be confirmed)

• Becoming My Mother's Daughter. Memory, Mourning and Maternal Inheritances: A Daughter's Reading of her Mother's Holocaust Memoir).