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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
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
The Erez border crossing between Gaza and Israel. Credit: Jotam Confino
January 24, 2024, 10:56 am
OPINION: Standing up for freedom demands more than remembrance
Amidst the violence taking place in Israel and Palestine, we must stand up for the freedom of others, not just our own, writes Laura Marks, chair of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
By Laura Marks
HIAS/JCORE chief executive Rabbi David Mason with Monim Haroon
December 27, 2023, 3:33 pm
‘I get daily calls from refugees in Israel wanting to fight for the IDF against Hamas’
Monim Haroon, who fled genocide in Darfur to live in Israel, tells Limmud 2023 about the refugee community's empathy with fight against Hamas
By Lee Harpin
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
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 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
Sudanese refugees at the Egypt-Israel border, April 2012
May 29, 2018, 11:07 am
Israel to grant temporary residency to 300 Sudanese refugees
Jewish state to extend humanitarian visas to hundreds people who fled genocide in east Africa
By JTA
Speakers: The Lord Mayor, Laura Marks OBE, Ben Helfgott MBE, Olivia Marks-Woldman, Sir Eric Pickles and Hayley Carlyle (Lead Youth Champion)
January 22, 2018, 9:27 am
Holocaust survivors mark anniversary of their arrival in Britain
More than 150 refugees of Nazi persecution and subsequent genocides came together at ceremonial home of the Lord Mayors of London
By Jenni Frazer
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
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