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9 December is Genocide Prevention Day, marking the anniversary of the UN Genocide Convention.

On 8 December 1941 the first murders were carried out at Chełmno. The Chełmno ‘killing centre’ was the first Nazi camp to be used specifically for the purpose of systematically murdering inmates, the majority of whom were Jewish.

The International Day of Disabled Persons, established by the United Nations, aims to promote the rights and wellbeing of persons with disabilities.

Following the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) and the House of Commons debate on the growing refugee crisis in Europe, the first Kindertransport left Berlin on 1 December 1938.

On 23 November 1939 Hans Frank, the Nazi Governor-General of occupied Poland, decreed that all Jews in Poland over the age of 10 were to wear a white badge with a blue Star of David on their right arm.

On the evening of 21 November 1938, shortly after and prompted by the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht), Philip Noel-Baker, MP for Derby South, introduced a motion in the House of Commons.

On 20 November 1945 the first of multiple trials began in Nuremberg, Germany. The surviving leaders of Nazi Germany were tried for crimes committed during World War Two, which included the Holocaust.

On 9 November 1938, the Nazis initiated a campaign of hatred against the Jewish population in all Nazi territories. An estimated 91 Jews were killed, 30,000 arrested and 267 synagogues destroyed. Many shops and other Jewish businesses were destroyed and looted.

Inter Faith Week takes place every November, highlighting inter faith work which takes place across the UK and encouraging people to celebrate diversity and commonality.

Sobibor, a death camp in a small village in present-day Poland, operated as a killing centre from 1942-1943 as part of Operation Reinhard – part of the Nazi’s final solution to exterminate all of European Jewry.