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This blog has been written for HMDT by Laura Marks OBE, Chair of Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.

The only known voluntary inmate of Auschwitz, who spent two and a half years gathering intelligence from within the camp.

On 15 September 1935, two distinct laws were announced at a Nazi party rally in Nuremberg, collectively known as the Nuremberg Laws.

National Hate Crime Awareness Week takes place in October every year, and is an opportunity to raise awareness of what hate crime is and stand by those affected by it.

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.