Exhibition highlights fate of ‘missing’ persons
An exhibition is highlighting efforts to trace the missing after the Holocaust, in which British Quakers played a big part
‘Fate Unknown: The Search for the Missing after the Holocaust’ an exhibition at The Wiener Library in Bloomsbury, London is highlighting the efforts made to trace the missing in the UK after the Holocaust, in which British Quakers played a big part.
The exhibition reflects the chilling after effects of world war two, when millions of people had been murdered or displaced. The fate of some of the missing is still unknown today.
Leah Sidebotham, marketing and social media officer from The Weiner Library, told the Friend: ‘The exhibition includes personal items on loan from the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Germany. For example, we have a pocket watch and a pair of earrings that were confiscated when the owners were taken to the Neugamme Concentration Camp.
‘There are also lots of search notices that were pinned up during the war and letters trying to find people, including some correspondence from three siblings trying to trace their mother sent to the Friends Ambulance Unit.’
According to a tweet from the library, ‘efforts to trace the missing in the UK were spearheaded by the Association of Jewish Refugees, British Quakers, British Red Cross and the Women’s Voluntary Service.’
The exhibition is on until 30 May.
