My Name Is Ruth Schwiening

Video: James Walker
Friday 27 January 2023
reading time: min, words

To celebrate National Holocaust Day, James Walker has created this video telling the story of Ruth Schwiening who came to the UK aged 3 on Kindertransport and settled in Newark...


Ruth has spent her life as an artist, recreating through painting, poetry and ceramics the life she was denied and to remind others that the holocaust must never happen again...

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