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The Nazis viewed Poles and other Slavic peoples (people from countries including Russia, for example) as inferior, and used them for forced labour. Poles who were considered ideologically dangerous (including thousands of intellectuals and Catholic priests) were targeted for execution in an operation known as AB-Aktion.

Mark Pawsey is the MP for Rugby. On the 20th anniversary of the Genocide he reflects on his experience of visiting Rwanda with the Conservative Party’s Project Umubano, a charity supporting development in the country.

Adam Boys, Director of International Programs at the International Commission on Missing Persons, has worked in Bosnia since 1994 and to mark Srebrenica Memorial Day discusses his organisation’s difficult work to identify the remains of the Bosnian War’s missing dead and their surviving families.

During this year’s Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month, historian Rainer Schulze reminds us of the systematic persecution the Roma and Sinti suffered during the period of Nazi rule in Germany and in Nazi-occupied Europe.

During this year’s Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month, historian Rainer Schulze reminds us of the systematic persecution the Roma and Sinti suffered during the period of Nazi rule in Germany and in Nazi-occupied Europe.