Holocaust Memorial Day 2025

Fate Unknown: The Search for the Missing after the Holocaust

29 January 2025, 1.30 to 5pm

Location: Main Hall, International Politics Building

The Centre for the Movement of People at Aberystwyth University is pleased to host a free programme and exhibition provided by The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day 2025.

The Wiener Holocaust Library is home to the UK’s International Tracing Service (ITS) digital archive, which holds millions of documents related to the Holocaust and Nazi era. The archive preserves the shared past of victims and survivors of the Holocaust and helps support family research of Nazi persecution.

We welcome researchers, archivists, historians, students, family historians, heritage practitioners, and anyone interested in Jewish and Holocaust history and its aftermath.

Learn about global efforts made after the Holocaust to find Zuzana Knobloch and millions of others like her. There will be an opportunity to view the Fate Unknown pop-up exhibition during the programme.

The programme schedule is as follows:

1.30  Arrival and Viewing of Fate Unknown exhibition

2.00  Fate Unknown exhibition curators’ talk with Christine Schmidt and Dan Stone (1 hour, incl brief QA)

3.00  Introduction by Morris Brodie to the Holocaust Resources Wales produced in conjunction with the Jewish History Association of South Wales and funded by the Association of Jewish Refugees (15 mins)

3.15  Introduction by Andrea Hammel to the new project Unsettled Lives: War and Displacement in Wales (15mins)

3.30  Break

3.45  Research in the ITS Archive and Difficult Histories with Elise Bath (45 mins)

4.30  Q&A and Consultations

5.00  End of Event