Holocaust Memorial Day

 

                                                   Library display for Holocaust Memorial Day

Every year on 27th January the world remembers all those murdered in the Holocaust and in the genocides that have taken place in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

This year the theme is 'Ordinary people'.

Ordinary people. 

Ordinary people who are the persecuted.

Ordinary people who are the victims.

Ordinary people who are the perpetrators.

Ordinary people who are the rescuers.

Ordinary people who are the bystanders.

Ordinary people, like you and me. We need to remember and to challenge prejudice and to stand up to hatred.

"We are all ordinary people today who can be extraordinary in our actions." HMD website, HMD for more information.

Holocaust Memorial Day

 

Be the light in the darkness

We will continue to do our bit for as long as we can, secure in the knowledge that others will continue to light a candle long after us.

- Gena Turgel MBE, survivor of the Holocaust (1923-2018)

The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2021 is Be the light in the darkness. It encourages everyone to reflect on the depths humanity can sink to, but also the ways individuals and communities resisted that darkness to ‘be the light’ before, during and after genocide.

Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD)

         

 Holocaust Memorial Day takes place on the 27th January, marking the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp on that day in 1945 at the end of the Second World War. This day is time to remember the many millions of innocent people who died during the Holocaust and in later genocides across the world.

The  theme for WMD 2021 is 'Be a light in the darkness'

For more information visit the Holocaust Memorial day website

Holocaust Memorial Day

On 27th January 1945 the death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated and this date is used to remember all victims of the Holocaust and subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur, and to honour the survivors of these atrocities.
There are many fiction books which have been set during the time of the Holocaust. We are probably most familiar with John Boyne's "The boy in the striped pyjamas" but there are many others available in the Library to try.

Now by Morris Gleitzman

Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli

The Mozart question by Michael Morpurgo

The boy in the striped pyjamas by John Boyne

Holocaust Memorial Day

 
Every year on the 27th of January, the date of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp at the end of WW2, the world remembers all of those who have been affected by acts of genocide whether in the concentration camps or during conflicts in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia or Darfur. The theme for HMD 2015 is 'Keep the memory alive'. There is a display in the Library to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

Holocaust Memorial Day 2014

Holocaust Memeorial Day (HMD) takes place each year on the 27th January- marking the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp on that date in 1945 at the end of WWII.

This day is a time to remember the many millions of innocent people who died during the Holocaust and in later genocides across the world in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

Learn more about HMD

There is a display in the Library about the Holocaust and the subsequent genocides.

Holocaust Memorial Day 2013

Holocaust Memorial Day falls on 27th January each year, this date was chosen because this is the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. This day is used to remember the victims of the Holocaust and of subsequent genocides and to learn from these events and understand the importance of religious and ethnic tolerance in the modern world.

In the Library there is a small display with non-fiction books about the Holocaust and genocide and some fiction books set during the Second World War.

HMD 2013

Holocaust Memorial Day

Holocaust Memorial Day is held on the 27th January every year to remind everyone of the lessons that need to be learned from the Nazi persecution and from all genocide past and present. In the Library there is a display of non-fiction and fiction books which tell of the Holocaust from a historical and often personal perspective. HMD website.

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