Surrey Heritage – Find Ivy: A Life Worthy of Life Exhibition – HMD 2025
Activity information
Activity type: Public activity
Organisation name: Surrey Heritage
Website: https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-leisure/history-centre
Address:
Surrey History Centre
130 Goldsworth Road
Woking
Surrey
GU21 6ND
United Kingdom
From 1940 to 1941 around 70,000 adults with mental and physical disabilities living in institutions across Germany and Austria were systematically killed under a Nazi state-led programme called Aktion T4. The victims were deemed to have 'lives unworthy of life'.
Finding Ivy: A Life Worth Living is based on an international research project set up by nursing lecturer Helen Atherton after a chance discovery 14 years ago. Working in her own time, Atherton brought together a team of volunteer researchers who have since unearthed the individual biographies of 13 victims who were born in the UK.
The exhibition consists of 16 panels. There are 13 which each tell the life story of one of the victims.
Free in the foyer of Surrey History Centre throughout January.
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