A new exhibition will unveil the stories of 13 British-born victims of the Nazi Aktion T4 programme.

Holocaust Centre North, in Huddersfield, will shed light on the victims' lives in a temporary exhibition titled 'Finding Ivy: A Life Worth Living,' set to open on October 2.

Between 1940 and 1941, around 70,000 adults with mental and physical disabilities were systematically murdered in Germany and Austria under the Aktion T4 programme.

The exhibition is named after Ivy Angerer, who was born to Austrian and German parents in Broughty Ferry, near Dundee, in 1911, and who had learning disabilities.

In 1930, Ivy was admitted to the Vienna psychiatric hospital Am Steinhof, living there and working in its laundry room until she was transported to Hartheim and killed in 1940.

The exhibition tells the story of Ivy and other victims, and notes that families were often - "months afterwards" - given a fake death certificate to explain the fate of their loved one.

A special one-off launch event will take place on October 2 at Holocaust Centre North to mark the opening of the exhibition, with presentations by curators Dr Helen Atherton (University of Leeds) and Dr Simon Jarrett (Open University), alongside Oxford Brookes University's Dr Paul Weindling.

Dr Atherton said: "It was on a trip to Hartheim in Austria in 2010, one of the six centres where the Nazis killed people with disabilities and mental illnesses, that I first found out about the British-born victims of Aktion T4.

"I was surprised and obviously shocked.

"Together with Simon, and a team working with us in Germany and Austria, we set about uncovering their stories as we very much wanted to honour them in some way."

Tickets to the launch event are free, but must be booked in advance at https://holocaustcentrenorth.org.uk/events/finding-ivy-exhibition-launch/