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Highlights of the HMD 2023 UK Online Commemoration
Watch highlights of the UK Online Commemoration for Holocaust Memorial Day 2023.
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Joan Salter - Moving Portrait
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust commissioned a special project entitled Moving Portraits. This is a collection of five photographs of genocide survivors, with each individual featured holding an object that holds significance to them.
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80 Candles for 80 Years
To mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2025, communities and organisations from across the UK will take part in a special nationwide arts and education project – 80 Candles for 80 Years.
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[Extra]Ordinary Portraits – A resource
This resource supports teachers and youth leaders in engaging young people to explore experiences of persecution and discrimination through art.
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The Holocaust was a tragically defining episode of the 20th Century, a crisis for European civilisation and a universal catastrophe for humanity. It shook the foundations of modern civilisation and its unprecedented character and horror will always hold universal meaning.
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House of Lords Reception to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2018
A reception to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2018 was held at The House of Lords last night.
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Reflecting on Nuremberg’s legacy, 75 years on
After the end of the Second World War, Nazi leaders were tried in Nuremberg, Germany. Now, 75 years on, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust's Claudia Hyde offers her reflections on the tribunals' legacy.
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Centenary of the Ottoman campaign to destroy its Armenian population
Today, 24 April 2015, marks the centenary of the deportation of Armenian intellectuals from Constantinople (Istanbul), recognised as the start of the Ottoman Empire’s campaign to destroy its Armenian population.
2 May 1933: Dissolution of German Trade Unions
On 2 May 1933, just three months after Adolf Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor of Germany, the SA and police occupied the offices of German Trade Unions, seizing control of them.