Staff from the Centre of Archaeology will join forces with the New Vic Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent to launch an innovative arts programme to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
On the 27th January, a new exhibition entitled “Finding Treblinka: An Exhibition of Archaeological and Forensic Research” will be shown at the New Vic Theatre. The exhibition demonstrates how novel forensic archaeological techniques offer new ways to keep the memory of the victims of Treblinka extermination and labour camps alive and provide the opportunity to document the actions of the perpetrators through the investigation of the physical evidence. Between 800,000 and one million people were murdered in these camps by the Nazis between 1941 and 1944.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a lecture by Dr Caroline Sturdy Colls in which she will outline more about the work that she and her team have carried out in these former camp areas over the last seven years.
The lecture will be followed by a performance of Yizkor, a documentary play written and directed by the New Vic’s Sue Moffat, which uses the testimonies of teenagers who lived during the Holocaust and aims to encourage young people to understand and tackle prejudice.
Tickets for the event are still available. More information can be found on the New Vic Theatre’s website.
The exhibition “Finding Treblinka” will also open at the Museum of Struggle and Martyrdom in Treblinka in the Spring of 2015 and will travel to a number of other museums throughout Europe in 2015/16.
