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MEMORIAL TO SIX MILLION +; PARK COULD HOST TRIBUTE
The Huddersfield Daily Examiner, UK
August 16, 2013 Friday
Edition 1;National Edition
by DAVE HIMELFIELD
THE NORTH of England's first permanent Holocaust memorial will be
in Huddersfield.
Greenhead Park is one of three sites which have been shortlisted for
the memorial. The other possible sites are the town's university and
Huddersfield New College, in Salendine Nook.
One option, revealed in Greenhead Park this week, could be the
blueprint for "6 Million+", a memorial to the six million Jews and
other minorities massacred by the Nazis.
The concept, designed by Young Batley youth group, is one of several
ideas for the "6 Million+ In Our Hands" project.
Young people, including students from Huddersfield University,
Huddersfield New College and members of the Pakistani Youth Alliance,
have been working on different concepts with artist Antonia Stowe.
Ms Stowe designed and built the original 6 Million+, a work comprising
6.7m buttons installed at Huddersfield Art Gallery, in 2006.
The final design will be made into a permanent memorial which will
be installed at an unconfirmed venue in Kirklees.
The design and the venue will be announced on January 30, three days
after UK Holocaust Memorial Day.
Again, it will include over six million buttons representing those
killed during the Holocaust and other genocides.
Other ideas include stringing buttons together and making branches
to form a tree.
Another uses the buttons to make a giant pod inside which visitors
can hear the voices of Holocaust and genocide survivors.
Ms Stowe, who is based in Leeds, said: "I'm not just looking at
ideas, I'm looking at how people think, connect and describe their
own personal stories and their emotional responses."
But why is the project based around buttons? Project leader Kim
Strickson explains: "Buttons have little stories behind them; like
where they're from and who they belonged to.
"Everyone has buttons and they're all different with different colours,
textures and sizes - a bit like people."
Involved in the project is Dieudonne Manirakiza, a Kirklees Council
officer who survived the Rwanda-Burundi genocide.
Mr Manirakiza said: "I have been giving my ideas and perspectives
having grown up in Burundi and seen some atrocities of the civil war.
"It's about changing the way we think."
HOLOCAUST? The word Holocaust comes from the Greek 'holos' (whole)
'kaustos' (burnt).
. ? Between 1933 and 1945 the Nazis massacred six million Jews as
well as up to 1.5m Gypsies and thousands of homosexuals, disabled
people and political opponents.
. ? Some extend the definition to include the murder of millions of
Slavs, Poles and Soviet prisoners of war.
. ? Other genocides include the Armenian Genocide of 1915
(approximately 1.5m victims), Rwandan Genocide of 1994 (up to one
million victims) and the Srebrenica massacre of 1995 (8,372 victims).
http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/greenhead-park-could-site-first-5738752
The Huddersfield Daily Examiner, UK
August 16, 2013 Friday
Edition 1;National Edition
by DAVE HIMELFIELD
THE NORTH of England's first permanent Holocaust memorial will be
in Huddersfield.
Greenhead Park is one of three sites which have been shortlisted for
the memorial. The other possible sites are the town's university and
Huddersfield New College, in Salendine Nook.
One option, revealed in Greenhead Park this week, could be the
blueprint for "6 Million+", a memorial to the six million Jews and
other minorities massacred by the Nazis.
The concept, designed by Young Batley youth group, is one of several
ideas for the "6 Million+ In Our Hands" project.
Young people, including students from Huddersfield University,
Huddersfield New College and members of the Pakistani Youth Alliance,
have been working on different concepts with artist Antonia Stowe.
Ms Stowe designed and built the original 6 Million+, a work comprising
6.7m buttons installed at Huddersfield Art Gallery, in 2006.
The final design will be made into a permanent memorial which will
be installed at an unconfirmed venue in Kirklees.
The design and the venue will be announced on January 30, three days
after UK Holocaust Memorial Day.
Again, it will include over six million buttons representing those
killed during the Holocaust and other genocides.
Other ideas include stringing buttons together and making branches
to form a tree.
Another uses the buttons to make a giant pod inside which visitors
can hear the voices of Holocaust and genocide survivors.
Ms Stowe, who is based in Leeds, said: "I'm not just looking at
ideas, I'm looking at how people think, connect and describe their
own personal stories and their emotional responses."
But why is the project based around buttons? Project leader Kim
Strickson explains: "Buttons have little stories behind them; like
where they're from and who they belonged to.
"Everyone has buttons and they're all different with different colours,
textures and sizes - a bit like people."
Involved in the project is Dieudonne Manirakiza, a Kirklees Council
officer who survived the Rwanda-Burundi genocide.
Mr Manirakiza said: "I have been giving my ideas and perspectives
having grown up in Burundi and seen some atrocities of the civil war.
"It's about changing the way we think."
HOLOCAUST? The word Holocaust comes from the Greek 'holos' (whole)
'kaustos' (burnt).
. ? Between 1933 and 1945 the Nazis massacred six million Jews as
well as up to 1.5m Gypsies and thousands of homosexuals, disabled
people and political opponents.
. ? Some extend the definition to include the murder of millions of
Slavs, Poles and Soviet prisoners of war.
. ? Other genocides include the Armenian Genocide of 1915
(approximately 1.5m victims), Rwandan Genocide of 1994 (up to one
million victims) and the Srebrenica massacre of 1995 (8,372 victims).
http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/greenhead-park-could-site-first-5738752