Beth Shalom (lit. "House of Peace") is a Holocaust memorial centre near Laxton in Nottinghamshire in England. Opened in 1995, it is England's only Holocaust museum. The centre was founded by brothers James and Stephen Smith following a 1991 visit to Israel during which a trip to Yad Vashem changed the way they looked at history and the Holocaust.
The museum seeks to educate primary school students about the Holocaust through their primary exhibit on children's experiences funded in part by a lottery grant of nearly £500,000. Prince Harry was educated about the Holocaust at the Centre following an incident when he wore a Nazi costume.
On 21 July 2010 - almost twenty years after the Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre was founded - James and Stephen Smith, and their mother Marina, were each awarded honorary degrees of Doctor of Letters (DLitt) by Nottingham Trent University
Famous quotes containing the words beth and/or centre:
“Where beth they biforen us weren,”
—Unknown. Ubi Sunt Qui ante Nos Fuerunt? (L. 1)
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)