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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
Holocaust survivors, survivors of genocides in Rwanda and Darfur, royal guest the Duke of Gloucester and dignitaries, join together for a commemorative Coronation photograph. Pic: HMDT and Grainge Photography.
May 5, 2023, 3:39 pm
Duke of Gloucester joins Holocaust survivors to toast King Charles III’s Coronation
Shoah survivors including Mala Tribich and Manfred Goldberg celebrate at a very British tea party, hosted by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
By Michelle Rosenberg
Holocaust survivor Alfred Huberman and his granddaughter Faye Huberman Holocaust memorial day 2009.
April 26, 2023, 10:00 am
OPINION: The Fragility Of Freedom – that’s the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2024
Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2024 will also mark the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda.
By Olivia Marks-Woldman
Holocaust survivors John Hajdu MBE, Joan Salter MBE and Martin Stern MBE visit the exhibition at IWM London. © IWM - Generations: Portraits of Holocaust Survivors.
August 9, 2021, 12:51 pm
The power of images
Following the opening of the Portraits of Holocaust Survivors exhibition at the Imperial War Museum London, Olivia Marks-Woldman of HMDT reflects on the importance of remembrance
By Olivia Marks-Woldman
Olivia Marks-Woldman, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust chief executive, ur
January 25, 2021, 10:49 am
Shoah education chief: Pandemic ‘deliberately exploited’ by conspiracy theorists
Chief executive of the HMDT, Olivia Marks-Woldman, reflects on growing online extremism ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day
By Jewish News Reporter
Olivia Marks-Wolfman, Rabbi David Meyer, Maureen Lipman and Karen Pollock have all been recognised in this year's honours
October 9, 2020, 10:33 pm
Shoah survivors and educators recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
Holocaust remembrance chiefs and acting star Maureen Lipman given recognition, as PaJeS' rabbi David Meyer gets OBE, and interfaith philanthropist David Khalili given a knighthood
By Jenni Frazer
Screenshot from Twitter of alleged Uyghur prisoners, blindfolded and cuffed being loaded on to trains. (Via Jewish News)
August 20, 2020, 2:15 pm
OPINION: Never again can never again be left to chance
Dr Kate Ferguson and Olivia Marks-Woldman reflect on the persecution of Uyghur Muslims in China, and why it's time to take a stand, inspired by recent Jewish history
By Dr Kate Ferguson and Olivia Marks-Woldman
Panel on Uyghur persecution
July 24, 2020, 12:53 pm
Uyghur leader in UK: China’s persecution evolving into ‘more genocidal policy’
Rahima Mahmut tells an online Jewish News panel event with Maajid Nawaz, MP Nusrat Ghani and representatives from René Cassin and HMDT, of new techology being used for persecution.
By Jenni Frazer
David Starkey
July 2, 2020, 5:39 pm
Shoah memorial group blasts David Starkey for saying ‘slavery was not genocide’
'To suggest a genocide did not take place because some of those who were persecuted survived is dangerous, damaging and completely reprehensible'
By Mathilde Frot
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge during a visit to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin on the first day of their three-day tour of Germany (2017). Photo credit: Jane Barlow/PA Wire
January 21, 2020, 10:26 am
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to attend Westminster Holocaust Memorial Day event
Prince William will give reading at the event and meet survivors, as the country marks 75-years since the liberation of Auschwitz
By Jewish News Reporter
pile of letters and postal parcel
January 20, 2020, 10:55 am
Royal Mail issues Holocaust Memorial Day postmark
Announcement welcomed by Shoah educators as the postal service says it's 'proud to support the excellent work of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust'
By Jewish News Reporter
Canon Chancellor Christopher Collingwood helped light six hundred candles at York Minster in memory of more than 6 million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis on HMD last year Photo credit: Danny Lawson/PA Wire
January 5, 2020, 9:47 am
BBC to broadcast ceremony marking 75th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January will be themed around the phrase 'Stand Together' and will feature readings, music and testimony from survivors
By Mathilde Frot
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby during his landmark visit to Auschwitz in January 2017
December 10, 2019, 4:02 pm
Archbishop of Canterbury, Chief Rabbi and senior Imam pen HMD prayer
Leading Christian, Jewish and Muslim figures come together for landmark initiative ahead of the 75th anniversary of the the liberation of Auschwitz
By Jewish News Reporter
November 21, 2019, 12:39 pm
90 messages for 90 years: Happy birthday Sir Ben Helfgott!
Five prime ministers, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Sadiq Khan, Stephen Fry and Rachel Riley among figures to wish the communal icon and Shoah survivor many happy returns!
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