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Joan Salter, Pic: Sam Churchill and the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.
February 19, 2026, 4:18 pm
We must not let the distorters define Holocaust Memorial Day
The best way to counter those who seek to silence us is not to shout into the void of their making
By Joan Salter MBE
Sir Sajid Javid, Laura Marks CBE and Olivia Marks-Woldman OBE at the HMDT reception in Parliament. Photo Credit: Sam Churchill
July 8, 2025, 1:44 pm
Sajid Javid begins tenure as new Chair of Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
Twelve survivors attend House of Commons handover, as former Home Secretary vows to challenge hate
By Annabel Sinclair
Lord Dubs speaking at the launch of the Labour Party race and faith manifesto at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre, north London.
February 2, 2023, 4:31 pm
Suella Braverman’s ‘invasion’ rhetoric is ‘personally upsetting’, says Labour peer
Lord Dubs fled the Nazis aboard the Kindertransport and describes Home Secretary's language as a low point of his parliamentary career
By Jewish News Reporter
Suella Braverman in the Commons
January 19, 2023, 10:18 am
OPINION: Note to Suella: it’s time to realise words matter
Twisted words and twisting the knife: Jenni Frazer takes the home secretary to task over her recent exchange with a Holocaust survivor.
By Jenni Frazer
Holocaust survivor Joan Salter hold a picture of herself as a young refugee.
January 17, 2023, 11:41 am
VOICE OF THE JN: Joan’s right, this country is not a chuppah for refugees
Holocaust survivor Joan Salter took the home secretary to task for all of us... but our history of taking refugees is still rose-tinted.
By Voice of the Jewish News
Holocaust survivor Joan Salter recounts her story during a BBC televised event organised by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust at London's Guildhall to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. The former youth worker who once accompanied a group of working-class East End teenagers to Buckingham Palace to meet the Duke of Edinburgh has praised his award programme for "changing their lives". Issue date: Friday April 16, 2021.
April 16, 2021, 10:23 am
Holocaust survivor praises Duke of Edinburgh Award for ‘changing lives’
Poland-born Joan Salter, who took a group of working-class girls to the palace in the 1970s while a youth worker, said prince Philip was 'charming and not at all snobby'
February 3, 2021, 11:10 am
Video game being developed with Holocaust survivor to extend reach of education
Creator Luc Bernard says Sony has already 'agreed to launch' it, with the game being created with contribution from Shoah survivor Joan Salter
By Jewish News Reporter
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
Four of the shortlisted designs
August 1, 2017, 5:46 pm
National Holocaust memorial designs go on display at V&A Museum
Survivors warn about the dangers of modern prejudice as blueprints for a National Holocaust Memorial go on display at the Victoria and Albert
By Jenni Frazer
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