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Peter Lantos BEM

Peter Lantos BEM

By the age of 30, Peter Lantos had endured the horrors of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, lost most of his family, suffered abuse at the hands of Hungary’s Communist police, earned a medical degree and defected to England.

HMD Holocaust and genocide film screening and discussion resources

HMD Holocaust and genocide film screening and discussion resources

These resources have been created to provide educators and Holocaust Memorial Day activity organisers with suggested films about the Holocaust and where persecution led in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. The resources also provide discussion points, questions and suggestions for further activities to take forward your learning and engagement.

2 August 1944: Roma Genocide Remembrance Day

On the night of 2/3 August 1944, the camp where Roma and Sinti people were held at Auschwitz-Birkenau was liquidated. Thousands of men, women and children of Roma or Sinti origin were murdered in the gas chambers by Nazi officers. Their bodies were burned in pits.