The Next Surrey Heritage Presentation
Wednesday 29th January, 2025.
5:30pm – 6:45pm.
ZOOM.
£6.00.
Finding Ivy: A Life Worthy of Life. The story of the British-born victims of the Nazi war on disabled people. A talk by Dr. Helen Atherton and Dr. Simon Jarrett
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 Ivy – A Life Worthy of Life’ which is on display at Surrey History Centre throughout January 2025.
Tickets: £6
Please book a place online here
