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Bosnia: 1995

Bosnia: 1995

In July 1995, with the back drop of the ongoing war, Bosnian Serb troops and paramilitaries led by Ratko Mladić descended on the town of Srebrenica and began shelling it. Around 8,000 Muslim men, and boys over 12 years old, were murdered in Srebrenica.

30 June 1940: Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands begins

On 30 June 1940, the Nazis began their invasion of the Channel Islands – a group of British Crown dependency islands off the coast of France. This was the result of the German invasion of Western Europe. From May 1940, Nazi troops had been moving west. They captured Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and France in quick succession, with Paris falling to the Germans on 14 June 1940.

Rise of the Nazi Party

The success of Hitler and the Nazi party did not come from nowhere. The party developed and established itself in a Germany devastated by defeat in World War One and suffering an economic crisis.

Jean Louis Mazimpaka

Jean Louis Mazimpaka

Jean Louis Mazimpaka survived the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda in moved to the UK in 1999. This is his story.

14 October 1943: Uprising at Sobibor death camp

Sobibor, a death camp in a small village in present-day Poland, operated as a killing centre from 1942-1943 as part of Operation Reinhard – part of the Nazi’s final solution to exterminate all of European Jewry.

Sabina Miller BEM

Sabina Miller BEM

Sabina Miller met severely visually impaired illustrator Kimberley Burrows over lunch in central London for HMD 2015.