“Finding Ivy: A Life Worthy of Life” – Online Talk – HMD 2025
Activity information
Activity type: Public activity
Organisation name: Surrey Heritage
Website: https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-leisure/history-centre/events
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 Worthy of Life' tells the previously unknown story of the 13 British-born victims of this murderous assault on disabled people. Most of them 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. Others were from mixed marriages between British and German or Austrian nationals.
This online event will feature presentations from Dr Helen Atherton (University of Leeds) and Dr Simon Jarrett (Open University) the curators of the exhibition. Both speakers will discuss the T4 programme and the meticulous research that has unearthed these 13 life stories.
This online event accompanies the exhibition 'Finding
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