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This blog was a speech given at a special reception for survivors on Thursday 18 January by Hayley Carlyle, Lead Youth Champion for Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT).

We are delighted to announce that 11,000 activities took place across the UK to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) this year – more than ever before.

Collage artist Martin O’Neill and animator Andrew Griffin met Holocaust survivor Bettine Le Beau at her north London home, as part of the HMD 2015 Memory Makers project.

Holocaust Memorial Day Trust was pleased to partner with The Executive Office, Northern Ireland, who hosted a regional Ceremony on Thursday 24 January to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2019.

On assuming power in 1933 the first people the Nazis targeted for arrest and imprisonment were political opponents – primarily communists, trade unionists and social democrats.

Dr Martin Stern MBE was five years old when he was taken to a concentration camp. In this film, Martin is asked questions about his experiences by members of the HMDT Youth programmes and HMD Youth Board.

In the second of his blogs on the theme Stand Together, Dr Martin Stern MBE, a survivor of the Holocaust, discusses the true meaning of Standing Together in past and present times.

In this photo blog, photographer Mussa Uwitonze, who survived the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, presents a selection of photographs which offer us a snapshot of his life in Rwanda. Through these images, Mussa reflects on overcoming the past, and how photography, meeting his wife and having children transformed his life and gave him hope for the future.

Holocaust Memorial Day offers workplaces the opportunity to bring employees together to reflect on lessons from the past, and how your organisation and its values ensure the working environment is an inclusive and welcoming place.

Poetry is an inspiring way to bring people together to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD).