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Hosted by HMDT and Novus, the leading prison education organisation, the event brought together distinguished guests, community representatives and educational partners, including Deputy Lieutenant of Greater Manchester Paul Griffiths DL, Esq, The Lord Mayor of Greater Manchester, Councillor Carmine Grimshaw and Holocaust survivor Anne Super.
Yisrael Abelesz was just 14 years old when he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most infamous of all Nazi camps. Whilst there he escaped selection for the gas chambers and survived typhoid and a death march.
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, footballing legends from five Premier League clubs have met Holocaust survivors to honour their resilience and shine a light on the enduring consequences of unchecked hate.
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.
This Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD), we will come together to learn and remember. One way to engage in meaningful conversation around HMD is to share and listen to survivor experiences. This blog will show you five different ways you could use survivor experiences in your HMD activity this year.