The History Boys star Samuel Barnett makes a pledge for HMD 2014
Actor Samuel Barnett, best known for his part as Posner in The History Boys, has made an online pledge and recorded a poem for Holocaust Memorial Day 2014.
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HMDT survey: Half of UK population unable to name a post-Holocaust genocide
New research from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT) has found that half the UK population cannot name a genocide that has taken place since the Holocaust despite millions being murdered as a result of persecution in Cambodia, Rwanda Bosnia and Darfur.
HMDT Blog: Lord McConnell: Remember Rwanda and never forget our responsibility to protect
Rt Hon Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale is a former First Minister of Scotland and now a Labour life peer in the House of Lords.
UK assumes the Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance
Today the United Kingdom assumes the Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). IHRA is the organisation which evolved from the Stockholm Declaration of 2000 – the international agreement which instituted Holocaust Memorial Day across the world and committed its signatories to preserve the memory of those who were murdered in the Holocaust.
Remembering Rwanda – 20 years on
7 April 2014 begins a 100-day period of commemoration, which marks 20 years since the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.