International Holocaust Memorial Day Exhibition 2025

  • January 27th - February 19th 2025
  • TBC
  • Heritage Gallery

This year’s Holocaust Memorial Day marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp, and the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Bosnia. The theme of this year’s event, ‘For a Better Future’, emphasises the imperative that the horrors of the past must not be repeated.

Holocaust Memorial Day commemorates the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, along with millions of others who suffered under Nazi persecution and in other genocides.

The aim of this exhibition is to highlight the importance of Holocaust education in building empathy, respect for diversity, and a shared commitment to humanity. 

It focuses on artistic responses to education about the Holocaust and other genocides by pupils from our partner schools and linked organisations, as well as University of Greenwich students. 

Among the artists focused on is Austrian-born poet Rita Seliger, whose memories as a Jewish child during occupation are documented through her work, which in turn has inspired new artworks by University of Greenwich animation students.

By showcasing creative responses to traumas of the past and the present, we continue the legacy of using art as an important tool for processing trauma and finding healing, remembering the past to inspire commitment to a
compassionate and inclusive future.

We wish to thank our contributors:

Apples and Honey Intergenerational Nursery
Bromley Reform Synagogue
Chislehurst School for Girls
Haberdashers’ Slade Green Primary School
More2nurseries
Plumcroft Primary School
Rye Oak Primary School
Willow Bank Primary School (Woodland Academy Trust)

Animation students from the University of Greenwich:

TJ Allen; Victoriia Bastrakova; Daniel Murillo Gonzalez; Zuko Ko; Prashap Limbu; Gui de Moraes; Niel Rathod; Bry Reinoso Jaya; Gabriel Rodrigues Verissimo De Brito Rodrigues; Joshua S Yee-Mon