After Auschwitz
On Holocaust Memorial Day 2023, join Daniel Kowalsky, Lecturer in European Studies, Queen’s University Belfast. The starting point for his talk is the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Soviet Red Army on 27 January 1945.
Belfast at War 1939-1945 with Joseph Quinn
Join Joseph Quinn at the Linen Hall Library as he discusses Belfast’s role in the Second World War. Joseph is the project co-ordinator of ‘Their Finest Hour’, a crowdsourcing initiative by the University of Oxford that aims to collect and digitally archive the everyday stories and objects of the Second World War.
Midnight Again: The Wartime Letters of Helen Ramsey Turtle with Julie Mackie
Join Julie Mackie at the Linen Hall for a vivid account of the wartime letters of her mother Helen Ramsey Turtle. The letters are a beautiful evocation of Ulster during the Second World War.