Blog (Kilkeel) - NMD Museums

Lecture. ‘Irish Regiments & 'The Longest Day'  at Newry and Mourne Museum

An important collection of artefacts reflecting the work of the Kilkeel Knitting Mills has gone on display at Newry and Mourne Museum. The collection includes a knitting machine and examples of knitwear produced by the factory in the later decades of the 20^th century.

As we continue to reflect on World Holocaust Memorial Day throughout the month of February, we focus on the background to the development of the Kilkeel Knitting Factory which was established by Edith and Kurt Sekules in 1950. Before World War II the Sekules family had been part of the Jewish community in Vienna and settled in Northern Ireland in 1947.