Fate Unknown: The Search for the Missing after the Holocaust

Manx National Heritage is pleased to host a free day programme and exhibition provided by the Wiener Holocaust Library and Royal Holloway, University of London. The Wiener Holocaust Library is home to the UK’s International Tracing Service 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 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. The work of the International Tracing Service (ITS) will be explored and connections made to the many Jewish refugees held as internees on the Isle of Man.

The programme schedule is as follows:

11.00 – 11.30: Arrival and coffees

11.30 – 12.30: Fate Unknown exhibition curators’ talk with Dr Christine Schmidt Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library, London and Dan Stone, Professor of Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London

12.30 – 13.30: Break (food not provided), with opportunity to view the pop up exhibition banners and Manx Museum galleries during the lunch break

13.30 – 14.10 : Family Research Workshop with Elise Bath, Holocaust Researcher, International Tracing Service (ITS)

14.10 – 14.30: Aspects of Second World War internment on the Isle of Man with Yvonne Cresswell

14.30 – 15.00: Q&A and Consultations