Submitted by Jay Richardson on 30 Aug 2024 - 11:27am
Between 1940 and 1941 around 70,000 adults with mental and physical disabilities were systematically murdered in Germany and Austria under a Nazi state-led programme called Aktion T4. They were deemed to be 鈥榣ife unworthy of life鈥�.
The exhibition 鈥楩inding Ivy 鈥� A Life Worthy of Life鈥� at the tells the remarkable story of the 13 British-born victims of this state-sponsored killing programme targeted at disabled people.
Some of these victims were from mixed British-German or British-Austrian marriages. Others were from the families of German and Austrian immigrants who moved to Britain to work in the early twentieth century before fatefully returning to Germany before the Second World War.
The accompanying event will feature an expert panel with Dr Helen Atherton (University of Leeds) and Dr Simon Jarrett (Open University), the curators of the exhibition, along with historian Dr Christopher Dillon (Kings College, London). They will not only discuss the T4 programme but also shed light on the meticulous research that has unearthed these 13 life stories.
The panel discussion will be followed by a reception during which visitors will also have the chance to view the exhibition. The exhibition will be on show in August and September and can be viewed from Monday-Friday, 9:30am-5pm.
