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On this year’s International Women’s Day – Sunday 8th March - Holocaust Centre North are delighted to be hosting Award-Winning Huddersfield based animation Studio, Fettle Animation for a day of filmmaking and storytelling whilst shedding a spotlight on the remarkable strong female survivors whose tales of resilience and survival they share through their collection and archives.
Visitors will be invited to design flip books and make their own stop motion animation inspired by both Fettle’s award-winning and Bafta nominated film and BBC 4 Documentary series, Children of the Holocaust and the artwork which features in its accompanying graphic novel Survivors of the Holocaust, by Kath Shackleton. Film makers will be at the Centre to share their experiences of making the series and the book – both of which bring together six different real-life survivors’ accounts of the Holocaust. Both the book and the animation will be read and shown on the day for visitors.
This free to attend, one off event is open to all ages and offers an exciting creative opportunity to learn more about Holocaust Centre North’s many remarkable female survivors who created new lives for themselves in the North of England and whose experiences are told in the Centre’s permanent Exhibition.
Holocaust Centre North’s Head of Learning, Hannah Randall who will be running the event alongside Fettle Animation, comments “We are so excited to be working with Fettle Animation on this event, highlighting the stories of the remarkable women who made their new lives in the North of England after surviving the Holocaust. We hope that the families who come will learn about their stories but also be inspired by the animation techniques to tell their own stories.”
The Centre’s Head of Fundraising Hannah Goldstone will also be in attendance as a Third Generation Holocaust Survivor. She will talk about her own family’s remarkable story of survival. Her grandfather escaped Nazi Germany at the age of 9 and came over to the UK on the Kindertransport alone to begin a new life in the North West of England.
Holocaust Centre North’s International Women’s Day and World Book Day event runs from 11am to 3pm on Sunday 8th March at Holocaust Centre North. Tickets are free but booking is advisable via hcn@hud.ac.uk
The event is recommended for ages 7+.
Header Image: Fettle Animation
