Join us for an exclusive Circle Square preview of the remarkable exhibition “In their Footsteps”, before it moves to the Houses of Parliament in January, as part of the Government’s official Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations.

IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS is a remarkable exhibition, curated by the Holocaust Education Charity Learning from the Righteous. It features 200 ceramic shoes made by the artist Jenny Stolzenberg in memory of her father, Wilhelm Pollak.  The sole survivor of an Austrian Jewish family, he never spoke about his concentration camp experiences. When he died, Jenny made the shoes in response to his silence, describing the process of making them as the conversation they were never able to have. Before she died in 2016, they toured the world to high acclaim.

Learning from the Righteous has been entrusted by her family to create a lasting legacy for these poignant works of art. They tour schools to initiate conversations with students about the contemporary relevance of the Holocaust. Who were these people? What were their dreams? And, crucially, in memory of those who can no longer leave a mark, what will your footprint-of-change be?

Antony Lishak MBE, CEO of Learning from the Righteous, author and educator, will present this exhibition and talk about the impact that the exhibition has had on children, his ongoing research into an extensive archive of Jenny’s fathers documents which were donated to the Wiener Library after his death in 1990, documents which she knew nothing about, and what he hopes the exhibition will achieve in the Houses of Parliament.

Antony Lishak MBE

Antony has devoted his entire career to working with young people — first as a primary school teacher, then through his books and creative writing workshops, and now as an educator on the Holocaust, for which he has been awarded an MBE. Inspired by his grandparents, particularly his grandfather, and by the stories of Holocaust survivors, Antony’s mission is to empower young people to understand the past and make a positive difference in the world.

He founded the charity, Learning from the Righteous, an educational charity which uses stories of survival and rescue during the Holocaust to broaden children’s knowledge of the subject, and inspire them to do good in the world.