1. The Gaps Between the Unforgettable (2023) – April Forrest Lin 林森

Video
5 min 13 sec
Holocaust Centre North Archive, courtesy of the Black, Kubie, and Simon families

The Gaps Between the Unforgettable explores Holocaust Centre North’s conflicting and complex position as steward and curator of public memory. Materials from the archive are enlarged, held, and repositioned – an invitation to consider the care, labour, and intention that goes behind sustaining an archive and the stories it contains. Simultaneously, The Gaps Between the Unforgettable urges us to consider a formation of history that also includes those who do not get to be documented, and whose images do not survive long enough to become archivable.

With thanks to the Black, Kubie, and Eger families whose collections
feature in the work. Courtesy of Holocaust Centre North Archive.

Shown in the film is a toy fort that Tom Kubie won and played with as a young child. Tom, his parents and his elder brothers came to the UK as refugees from Czechoslovakia in July 1939, when Tom
was four years old. Many of their extended family were murdered in the Holocaust.
Holocaust Centre North, courtesy of the Kubie family.