Holocaust Memorial Day 2023

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Holocaust Memorial Day 2023 – Ordinary People (GOV.UK)

In Germany, many individuals who were not ardent Nazis nonetheless participated in varying degrees in the persecution and murder of Jews, the Roma, the disabled ...

For others, the responsibility of failing to act. For some, that has meant responsibility for the most appalling crimes. Five hundred policemen, most from Hamburg, most in their 30s and 40s - too old for conscription into the army.

Holocaust Memorial Day 2023 (De Montfort University)

Commemorated annually on 27 January since 2001, it marks the liberation by Russian troops of Auschwitz-Birkenau - the largest Nazi concentration camp in Poland ...

“It should worry anyone hoping to have a place in the world that xenophobic, nationalist, and nativist movements have rather garnered further support since last year’s Holocaust Memorial Day. The message is that we all participate in the politics of genocide; because ordinary people are the victims, perpetrators, and bystanders in any genocide, no one can assume safety from occupying one or more of these positions at some point. The day also remembers those who were murdered in genocides in countries such as Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur. [a free drop-in event](https://www.hmd.org.uk/activity/city-of-leicester-holocaust-memorial-day-event-2023/) to commemorate those killed in the Holocaust and recent genocides on Saturday 28 January at 7pm. More recently it has included the Rohingya genocide, which is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people, perpetrated by the Burmese military in Myanmar. Holocaust Memorial Day honours the millions who lost their lives in the Holocaust as a result of persecution by the Nazis.

Ceremonies mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2023 - Shropshire ... (Shropshire Council Newsroom)

Schoolpupils at 2 Bridgnorth schools have planted a cherry tree at each school to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) today.

HMD activity organisers bring together the diverse strands of their communities to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day in their neighbourhoods. “I am heartened at the range of events being organised by ourselves and by others this year to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. Shropshire Libraries are showing the HMD film about the theme Ordinary People in the foyers at Shrewsbury Library and in Ludlow Library.

Hackney commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day 2023 (News)

Hackney has paid tribute to the victims of the Holocaust and subsequent genocides around the world in a special ceremony at Hackney Town Hall to commemorate ...

Ordinary people must remember the horrors that have come before, and push for a future where the rights of all are respected. Today we remember those taken from us in the Holocaust and through genocide. The ceremony included a special tribute to Petronella Cornelia van den Bergh, the great aunt of current Hackney Council officer Olga Vandenbergh, who hid and arranged shelter for Jewish children in the Netherlands from 1942-1944 before being shot by the Nazis in 1944.

Chelsea Football Club marks Holocaust Memorial Day 2023 (Chelsea FC)

92 year-old Holocaust survivor, Manfred Goldberg, who spent four years (1941 – 1945) between the ages of 11-15 in what he called 'the world's biggest atrocity', ...

Chelsea staff also visited the Imperial War Museum Holocaust Galleries, where individual stories from some of the six million Jewish people murdered in the Holocaust are told. Manfred explained to the Academy Players his first memory of witnessing a woman being brutally shot, just aged 11. They were joined by a large number of fellow Jewish people of all ages who were ordered to work.

A moment of reflection on Holocaust Memorial Day 2023 (wolves.co.uk)

On 27th January we remember the Holocaust, the murder of six million Jewish men, women, and children during the Second World War.

One of those has seen Wolves' under-14 players take part in the ‘Football Remembers the Holocaust’ programme, which helps young players understand the issues relating to the Holocaust's past, present and future. These memories stayed with them for the rest of their lives, and many veterans were never able to speak about what they saw. We also remember other victims of Nazi persecution, including the Roma and Sinti community, homosexuals, disabled people, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and political opponents. Between 1939 and 1945, Jews across Europe were forced into ghettos, separated from the rest of their towns and villages, starved, beaten, and deported to concentration and death camps where they were murdered. Or we might want to think about the ordinary people who perpetrated these events in a bid to understand where hatred and antisemitism can ultimately lead. Other communities were killed in forests and other locations, close to where they had lived for centuries.

Holocaust Memorial Day 2023: Light the darkness (United Reformed Church)

People are being encouraged to safely place lit candles in their windows for Holocaust Memorial Day 2023, taking place on 27 January and themed 'Ordinary ...

For them and all the other victims of genocide and persecution, a candle was lit at Church House by Carole Sired. But more than that, it reminds us that Gentiles really struggle, I believe, to comprehend the full depth of the collective, Jewish suffering. Iconic buildings and landmarks will also be lit up in purple during this national moment of commemoration and solidarity. Along the theme, the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust says: “The horrors of genocide is facilitated by ordinary people. Ordinary people turn a blind eye, believe propaganda, join murderous regimes. “The Holocaust is a stark reminder of the depth of inhumanity of which ordinary people are capable.