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In this blog, Lady Esther Gilbert shares her reflections after attending the UK funeral for six victims of the Holocaust who were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The funeral was held on 20 January, which is also the anniversary of the Wannsee Conference.
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 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.
Our Chief Executive Olivia Marks-Woldman reflects on her recognition in this year's Queen birthday honours list
Each year we host a young person from Austria, who is working in Holocaust education and commemoration as part of the Austrian Gedenkdienst programme. Here we explain the importance of the programme to our work and are given an insight into the life of our current Gedenkdiener, Jakob.