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Through Our Eyes is an 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.
During your visit you will also have the opportunity to see a new temporary exhibition, Death Marches: Evidence and Memory, as part of our involvement in the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership.
The Centre and the Exhibition is currently open Tuesdays and Wednesdays 10am - 5pm.
As we are still working partly from home we cannot always answer our office phone. We are happy to ring back when we pick up any messages but please ensure you leave your name and number so we can reach you.
Please be aware that masks remain mandatory across campus, including the exhibition.
Through Our Eyes
Through Our Eyes is an interactive, multi-media exhibition. 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. Text and images put their experiences in context, supported by animated maps and an immersive audio-visual experience driven by survivor testimony. There is a reflective space at the end of the exhibition where visitors can find out about the survivors’ experiences of 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 disturbing. The exhibition is suitable for children and teenagers learning about the Holocaust in more detail, but not suitable for very young children.
Exhibition opening hours
The Holocaust Exhibition & Learning Centre is currently open Tuesday and Wednesday. Our opening hours will be 10am-5pm.
Most visitors spend about 1 hour in the Exhibition, but if engaging with our touchscreens and viewing more content it is possible to spend longer.
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Conferencing
We have a conference space available to book, with a breakout space and full catering service available. Conference delegates have exclusive use of the Through Our Eyes exhibition.
The conference space is currently closed until further notice, however we’d be happy to talk to you about future requirements.
Group visits
If you’d like to plan a future visit for a group of 15 or more people, please call or email us to discuss your needs. For capacity reasons, if you arrive without booking we cannot guarantee that we will be able to accommodate you within the exhibition.
Find Us
The Holocaust Exhibition and Learning Centre,
The University of Huddersfield,
Queensgate,
HD1 3DH
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01484 365301
Please call or email us if you have any questions.
Use of the toilets is limited solely to Exhibition visitors.