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Lady Rosa Lipworth CBE, Pic: Michelle Rosenberg. Thursday 23rd May 2024
May 24, 2024, 1:18 pm
Holocaust and genocide survivors come together for tea
Guests gathered at private north London home to hear Holocaust Memorial Day Trust's plans for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau
By Michelle Rosenberg
Lord Pickles, Andy Lawrence, Tamara Finkelstein, Olivia Marks-Woldman
April 16, 2024, 2:04 pm
Theme announced for 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust announces that the 2025 remembrance day, focusing on 'For A Better Future’ will also mark the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Bosnia
By Michelle Rosenberg
Pic: Sam Churchill and the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.
January 25, 2024, 11:48 am
We won’t ‘cower away and accept antisemitism’ PM pledges
Prime Minister and dignitaries join survivors of the Shoah and Rwandan genocides at Holocaust Memorial Day event in London's Guildhall
By Jenni Frazer
Students on the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET)/UJS Lessons from Auschwitz Universities Project, visiting Auschwitz. Photo credit: Yakir Zur
January 26, 2023, 4:11 pm
OPINION: How to define the future of Holocaust education and commemoration?
Jaya Pathak, a regional ambassador for the Holocaust Educational Trust, asks: if Nazi crimes cannot prevent future genocides, can we really say that we have seen Auschwitz at all?
By Jaya Pathak
- Ratko Mladić, former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army, at his trial judgement at the ICTY. (Wikipeida/ Author UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/icty/26801740889/ / Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) /
July 7, 2021, 3:18 pm
Shoah educator’s extremism warning as Radovan Karadzic to be imprisoned in UK
Head of Holocaust Memorial Day Trust says that thanks to the internet, hateful views which were once viewed as fringe can be normalised
By Jewish News Reporter
Prince Charles speaking during the Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony 2021
January 28, 2021, 9:31 am
More than 20,000 watch virtual Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration
Chief Rabbi gives warning about 'dangerous winds of persecution' after the pandemic at event attended by the Prime Minister and featuring a message from Prince Charles
Survivors of the Holocaust and recent genocides, including Safet (third from the left) with Olivia Marks-Woldman, HMDT Chief Executive, and Laura Marks, HMDT Chair. Credit: Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.
July 10, 2020, 8:52 am
‘White armbands and yellow stars show similarities of genocide’
Ahead of the 25-year anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, survivor Safet Vukalić shares his harrowing first-hand testimony
By Stephen Oryszczuk
The Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potočari
July 6, 2020, 3:21 pm
OPINION: The world failed Bosnia 25 years ago. We can’t turn a blind eye again
A quarter-of-a-century after the Srebrenica massacre, Phil Rosenberg reflects on the failure to prevent it from happening - and the lessons of inaction in the face of evil
By Philip Rosenberg
Interior of Sarajevo’s Heart of Jesus Cathedral where the ceremony is going to be held (Wikipedia/ Source: http://www.ktabkbih.net Author: The Catholic news agency of the Bishops' Conference of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Katolička tiskovna agencija Biskupske konferencije Bosne i Hercegovine) )
May 17, 2020, 11:55 am
Bosnian cardinal plans to honour Nazi collaborators in memorial service
Jews in Bosnia and Israel’s embassy to the Balkan nation are protesting the plan, titled 'Mass for Bleiburg,' and to be held at Sarajevo’s Heart of Jesus Cathedral.
By JTA
Survivors of the Holocaust and recent genocides with Olivia Marks-Woldman, HMDT Chief Executive, and Laura Marks, HMDT Chair. Credit: Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.
January 14, 2020, 12:37 pm
Genocide survivors sign letter urging politicians to consider impact of language
Those who lived through the Holocaust and genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, Rwanda and Darfur warn politicians that 'what starts as name-calling becomes licence to maim and murder'
By Jewish News Reporter
Survivor of the Holocaust Helen Aronson speaks at the HMD 2019 reception
December 7, 2018, 12:29 pm
OPINION: Seventy years since the world was forced to take a stand on genocide
Seven decades after the adoption of the Genocide Convention, Olivia Marks-Woldman of HMDT reflects on the importance of marking the anniversary today
By Olivia Marks-Woldman
Interior of Sarajevo's Ashkenazi Synagogue
July 23, 2018, 12:19 pm
Anti-Semitic graffiti found in two Bosnian cities
Jewish leaders in Bosnia expressed concern over the incidents in Sarajevo and Tuzla, which were condemned by local leaders
By JTA
The 'astonishing' rise in Shoah educational events over the years
March 7, 2017, 3:28 pm
Educators welcome ‘astonishing increase’ in Holocaust Memorial Day events
New figures reveal 7,700 activities took place for this year's event – six times the number seen six years ago.
By Stephen Oryszczuk
With the ambassador
May 25, 2016, 12:26 pm
British rabbis and imams make Srebrenica trip
Muslim and Jewish leaders attended memorials in Srebrenica to mark 21 years since the genocide
Picture: ©Nick Danziger and nbpictures.com
February 11, 2016, 2:50 pm
Women of war captured in new exhibition at Imperial War Museum
By Francine Wolfisz
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