- BMA Meeting 1873
- Landscape and Trees
- People
- The Normansfield Bills
- Theatre
- The Main Building
- Maps of the Site
- The Buildings
- The Farm
- Victorian Photographic Panoramas of Normansfield
- Boathouse and the River
- Normansfield in the 20th Century
- The History of the Normansfield and Richmond Foundation
- Decoration, fixtures and fittings
- A Map of Normansfield Hospital
- Film: Langdon Down, The Legacy
- The Grounds
What's On
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY EVENT
Remembering Aktion T4
Monday 27 January 2020 | Museum open 2pm – 5pm
2.30pm Talk: Finding Ivy: From Belonging and alienation and back again
Speakers: Helen Atherton and Florian Schwanninger
The story of one victim of the Aktion T4 programme. Ivy was born in the UK and in 1930 went to live in an institution in Vienna. In the summer of 1940 she was killed at Hartheim castle near Linz. Different historical material has been used to tell Ivy’s story including photographs, church records, census reports and newspapers.
3.30pm Aktion T4: A documentary film
The Aktion T4 Nazi Euthanasia programme was responsible for the murder of approximately 275,000 people with learning disabilities.
In this 30 minute documentary film, Berge Kanikanian who has Down’s syndrome, travels to Poland and Germany to visit the sites of euthanasia centres and speaks to researchers and historians.
Please note this talk and film is not suitable for anyone under 16 years of age.
This event is free. Booking not required.
See: Talks and Tours
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