Queer artist-led response to the archive at Holocaust Centre North
Abstract
This paper maps an artist residency at Holocaust Centre North. The artist explores the archive for queer histories and develops a series of works in print and ceramics, making space for the queer silences found in the archive. Using archive research and artistic methods, the paper questions whose narratives are excluded within the Holocaust Archive and what happens when a queer lens is trained on the archive. The paper considers the importance of intergenerational memory in the safeguarding of Holocaust histories and the problems for queer Holocaust memory when queer knowledge is unlikely to be shared through intergenerational family ties.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Memory
Trauma
and Commemoration
Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies
Digital and Traditional Archives Management
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Holocaust Studies
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 413–431
- Publication date
- 3 March 2026
- Language
- EN