Abstract
This article explores the meanings generated by and through the establishment of Britain’s first permanent memorial centre to the Holocaust: Beth Shalom near Laxton in Nottinghamshire. The Centre is important in a number of respects. In addition to the Centre being established from outside the Anglo-Jewish community – hitherto the primary instigators of Holocaust memorial projects in Britain – the Centre occupies an important symbolic site, deep within the imagined landscape of England and ‘Englishness’. The article examines the way in which the mnemonic site’s relationship with its surrounding location is crucially important in the making of meaning, both for the Centre itself and for the surrounding landscape. It concludes by arguing that an active engagement with the landscape can be used to reconnect the spatial and temporal histories of particular mnemonic sites to explore the way in which the Holocaust is relevant to past and contemporary British social relations.
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