Current and upcoming exhibitions
Learning in Exile: Stories of Displacement and Education in the Rohingya Community
Learning in Exile examines what happens when education is repeatedly disrupted—not by a single crisis, but by layers of exclusion, displacement, and policy decisions that sever learning from meaning. Centred on the experiences of Rohingya children and youth since 1982 and the most recent 2016 crisis, the exhibition traces how schooling persists in form while failing in substance, and how communities respond by reclaiming language, knowledge, and the right to learn.
Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators and Victims
Between 1939 and 1945, 20 million individuals were exploited as slave and forced labourers by the Nazi regime. This exhibition will explore how perpetrators profited off and exploited slave labourers, alongside the first-hand stories of the victims.
Life and death in Saharan Vichy labour camps
This exhibition sheds light on lesser-known Vichy forced labour camps in North Africa, examining the experiences of the German-Jewish men who found themselves imprisoned in these spaces.
Upcoming events
HGRP Book Talk – Homecoming and Survival: Jewish Life Stories and Return in Greece
Building on Kateřina Králová’s book Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941–1946 (Brandeis University Press, 2025), in this event, the author, in conversation with Jay Prosser, Professor of Humanities at the University of Leeds, explores the meanings of “homecoming” for Jews from Greece through the lens of survivor testimony.
Book Talk – Stolen Legacies: The Fight for Nazi-Looted Art, by Adena Bernstein
Drawing from her book Stolen Legacies, author and prosecutor Adena J. Bernstein explores how restitution processes frequently placed impossible burdens on those who had already lost everything. Through powerful case studies and family stories, this program examines the emotional, legal, and moral dimensions of recovery, asking what justice can mean decades after genocide.
Book Talk – Through the Eyes of Jewish Child Survivors from Poland, Joanna Michlic in conversation with Zoë Waxman
Through the Eyes of Jewish Child Survivors from Poland offers an intimate social history of Jewish childhood during and after the Holocaust. The book's author, Joanna Beata Michlic, will be in conversation with Zoë Waxman.
Exhibition Talk – A Proximity to Violence: What Channel Islands’ labourers experienced in Alderney, by Gilly Carr
Join us for a special presentation by Dr Gilly Carr highlighting aspects of our newest exhibition Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators and Victims.
Book Talk: And The Cello Came Too, Robin Lustig in conversation with Michael Newman
When Robin Lustig’s mother died in 2013, he found himself drawn back into the tangled history of his German-Jewish family -- a story of survival, exile, death and endurance. He will discuss his book, and the issues it raises, with Michael Newman, chief executive of the Association of Jewish Refugees.
