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Roma Holocaust Memorial Centre

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Visit the memorial

The United Kingdom's first monument to the Roma and Sinti victims of the Holocaust.

When you can visit
Any hour, every day. The monument is outdoors and unfenced.
Admission
Free
Access
Step-free from the pavement on all approaches.
The Roma and Sinti Holocaust memorial in Newcastle surrounded by wreaths and flowers
The open-air Newcastle memorial with flowers and wreaths left in remembrance.

Where it is

In the civic quarter, in the open

The monument stands in Newcastle city centre, near the Civic Centre. It was raised with ROMA ACCESS — Newcastle Association and is the first in the United Kingdom dedicated to the memory of the Roma and Sinti victims of the Holocaust.

There is no building, no ticket desk and no opening time. You can go at two in the morning if that is when you need to.

Address
Civic Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8QH
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Unveiled
1 August 2025

Getting there

Five minutes from the Metro

Illustrated walking route from Haymarket toward Newcastle Civic Centre
Illustrative walking route from Haymarket toward the Civic Centre. The monument stands at NE1 8QH.
Metro
Haymarket is the nearest station, a short level walk away. Monument station is a little further and, despite the name, is not named after this monument.
Bus
Services to Haymarket bus station and to the Civic Centre stops on Barras Bridge.
Rail
Newcastle Central, then Metro two stops to Haymarket, or about twenty minutes on foot through the city centre.
Car
Blue Badge parking is available near the Civic Centre. There is no dedicated visitor parking at the monument itself.
On foot
The monument is in the civic quarter, close to the university and to Newcastle Civic Centre.

Please

Visiting respectfully

Four requests, none of them enforced by anyone. The monument is unstaffed and relies entirely on the people standing at it.

  1. 01

    The monument is a place of mourning. Please keep voices low and give space to anyone who is grieving.

  2. 02

    Flowers and candles may be left at the base. Please take away anything that is not biodegradable.

  3. 03

    Photography for personal and educational use is welcome. Please do not photograph other visitors without asking.

  4. 04

    Groups of more than ten are asked to tell us in advance so that we can avoid two groups arriving at once.

Group and school visits

Tell us if there are more than ten of you

Not for control — the space is public and nobody needs permission. It is so two coach parties do not arrive at the same moment, and so that a family who came to grieve does not find themselves in the middle of a Year 9 trip.

Arrange a visitSchool sessions

Combining a visit

Groups coming from outside the region often pair the monument with a museum session or a talk. We can usually provide a forty-minute session at the monument itself, led by a community educator, at no charge to state schools.

The Centre’s correspondence address is not a visitor site. Please do not turn up there.

44 Haydon Place
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE5 2UU