“Our commitment must be to remember the victims who perished, respect the survivors still with us, and reaffirm humanity's common aspiration for mutual understanding and justice.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
Scottish Holocaust-era Study Centre
15.08.2016
Garnethill Synagogue in Glasgow, Scotland, will become Scotland's first Jewish Heritage Centre.
The Centre, which will be funded by almost £350,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund, will provide public access to documents related to the experiences of Jewish refugees from the Second World War and Holocaust survivors who came to Scotland after the war, as well as the history of the Scottish Jewish community over the subsequent decades.
The project is a joint partnership between the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre and Garnethill Synagogue Preservation Trust, owners of the grade A listed Synagogue. The synagogue building opened on its current site in 1879.
Bernard Goodman, Chair of the Garnethill Synagogue Preservation Trust, said: "This Heritage Lottery funded project is an important first step in realising a Scottish Jewish Heritage Centre by improving access to the synagogue site, creating new research spaces, developing interpretation and activities on Scottish Jewish heritage and building on the existing partnership between the Trust and Archives.”
The Scottish Jewish Archives Centre was founded as a charity in 1987 and is based inside the synagogue. It collects documents the experiences of Jewish people in Scotland dating back over 200 years, with much of its collection coming from current and former communities in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, Greenock, Inverness, Falkirk, Ayr and Dunfermline.