Making History Together – Travelling Exhibition

Holocaust Memorial Day 2026

As part of this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations, The Together Plan’s Making History Together travelling exhibition will be installed at a North London (NW11) venue from 28 January to 8 February 2026.

The venue address will be provided upon registration.

Visiting Information

Free entry
Open Monday–Friday and Sundays,
10.00am–5.00pm
Booking is essential

Exhibition Launch Event

Friday 30 January | 5.15pm
Join us for a special launch evening with a wine and cheese reception.
Speaker:
Debra Brunner, Creator of the Making History Together programme and exhibition, and Founder & CEO of The Together Plan

RSVP using the form below

About Making History Together

Making History Together is a six-month educational programme with an accompanying exhibition designed for young learners, exploring the Holocaust in the German-occupied Soviet Union, with a particular focus on Belarus – a history that remains little known.

The programme and exhibition were conceived by Debra Brunner, who has worked closely with individuals and communities in Eastern Europe since 2009 and has travelled extensively in Belarus. She maintains close relationships with Holocaust survivors across the former Soviet Union and has played a central role in bringing many personal stories of the Holocaust in the East to publication. Debra has also undertaken extensive editorial work for publications managed by The Together Plan and for other published authors.

Following the Second World War, the Soviet Union promoted a narrative that all Soviet citizens suffered equally, making it almost impossible for Jewish people to speak openly about their specific experiences of persecution and survival. As a result, the Holocaust in the Soviet Union has remained largely hidden from public consciousness. Yet approximately 2.7 million of the six million Jews murdered between 1939 and 1945 were killed in the Soviet Union.

Understanding what happened to Jewish communities in the Soviet Union is essential to gaining a fuller and more accurate understanding of the Holocaust as a whole.

Why Belarus?

Today, there is no official Holocaust education programme in Belarus. Due to decades of suppression of this history, little is known within the country about what happened to its Jewish population during the war.

Making History Together is gradually being introduced in Belarus to enable young people to learn their own history for the first time. This shared process of learning is why we describe the programme as making history together.

Belarus is also a powerful starting point for Holocaust education because of the strong Jewish resistance movement between 1941 and 1944, including many Jewish partisans. We believe this makes Belarus not only an important place for young people to begin their Holocaust education journey, but also a meaningful entry point for learners of all ages.

Themes of the Exhibition

The programme and exhibition are built around six core themes:
Generation to Generation
Identity
Power & Leadership
Antisemitism
Tikkun Olam
Memory & Self

The exhibition features six panels, each representing one theme and capturing the essence of the programme. Together, they invite visitors to discover long-hidden history and to help put Jewish Belarus back on the map – simply by knowing what was lost.

Making History Together is about remembrance, discovery, and responsibility. It is about learning how to be a changemaker, and exploring how understanding history helps us become the best version of ourselves.

The Making History Together exhibition can be viewed and appreciated by people of all ages (recommended age 11 and over).

For an enhanced visitor experience we recommend having headphones and a device that can scan QR codes as the exhibition is interactive.