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Marcel Hoffmann was one of at least 25 French railway workers from Lille, northern France, who, in 1942, helped more than 40 Jewish children and adults escape deportation.

The HMD Youth Champion Programme empowers young people aged 14-24 years old to take action for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) through organising their own activities or events to raise awareness of HMD in their community and amongst their peers.

On 22 April 1945 Soviet troops liberated the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, 20 miles north of Berlin. They found 3,000 unguarded, weak and ill prisoners. These were the people who were too unwell to join the forced death march, which set off from Sachsenhausen the day before liberation.

The nation's Holocaust Memorial Day 2015 UK Commemorative Ceremony, organised by Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT) took place yesterday (27 January) at Central Hall Westminster, with a huge gathering of survivors, dignitaries and celebrities participating in a moving and poignant event.

We are delighted to welcome four new Trustees to our Board: David Austin OBE, Dr Kate Ferguson, Paul Giannasi OBE and Joan Salter MBE. Their varied experience and expertise in topics such as atrocity prevention and hate crime will be invaluable, as they support and guide our work as trustees.

Jamie (Team Assistant) and Rachel (HMD Development Manager) from the HMDT staff team recently took part in March of the Living UK, a six day international educational trip which includes visits to former concentration camps and culturally significant sites associated with the Holocaust.

The Kindertransport (Children’s Transport) was a unique humanitarian rescue programme which ran between November 1938 and September 1939. Approximately 10,000 children, the majority of whom were Jewish, were sent from their homes and families in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to Great Britain.

On Monday 25 November we held our Public Conversation exploring a question integral to the work of Holocaust and genocide commemoration – do we ask too much of survivors?

Yesterday, 18 January 2018, more than 150 survivors of the Holocaust and genocide were welcomed by The Lord Mayor of London to a special reception at Mansion House ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day 2018.

The UK Ceremony for Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 brought together The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with the UK’s faith, political and civic leadership, and survivors of the Holocaust and more recent genocides.