For Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2012, we commissioned students from Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design to design and build a commemorative art installation that participants could engage with and contribute to. After a successful...
To mark Inter Faith Week which starts on 19 November we interviewed Sarah Turner, our voluntary Faith Intern, to find out why she’s involved in HMDT and see what advice she has to offer to those involved in faith and interfaith wishing to mark HMD....
On Monday 12 November, following the Annual General Meeting, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust held its first Public Conversation: Finding Meaning in a Day. The conversation provided an important opportunity to talk about the nature of commemoration.The...
To mark International Youth Day – 12 August – we spoke to Joshua Whatsize, our Youth Champion, about why he’s involved with HMDT and what he hopes to achieve.1. Could you tell us what inspired you to become our Youth Champion?My interest, passion...
It is an extraordinary thing to watch a group of young people attempt to recreate the horrors of the Holocaust on a makeshift stage and hold the audience spellbound; to represent the violence and the absence of humanity with no other prop than a...
