By ‘From Tailors to Trawlers’ exhibition set for Town Hall
An exhibition is set for Grimsby Town Hall looking into British citizens of Jewish faith during the First World War.
The event taking place with North East Lincolnshire Archives will take place at Grimsby Town Hall, telling the story of Grimsby’s Jewish community during the First World War.
The exhibition will take place on the 14th of and 15th of July, the upcoming event can be found on social media.
The social media advert was shared on a local group, on the advertisement ‘We Were There Too’ said:
“During the late nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled antisemitism in Eastern Europe, with approximately 5000 a year passing through the port at Grimsby.
“A proportion of these immigrants settled in the town, with the Jewish population growing from 87 in 1871 to 450 by the outbreak of the war in 1914.
“Join us to find out more about some of these families, how they contributed to the British war effort and how the community was affected by conflict.”
