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HMDT Blog: March of the Living 2017 Part Two

Jamie (Team Assistant) and Rachel (HMD Development Manager) from the HMDT staff team recently took part in March of the Living UK, a six-day international educational trip which includes visits to former concentration camps and culturally significant sites associated with the Holocaust.

HMDT Blog: HMD 2017 across the UK

HMDT Blog: HMD 2017 across the UK

Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2017 was marked across the UK with thousands of diverse activities involving people from all walks of life.

Witold Pilecki

Witold Pilecki

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

Concentration camps

On 22 March 1933, only a couple of months after Adolf Hitler was appointed German Chancellor, the first concentration camp of the Nazi regime was established in the town of Dachau about 10 miles northwest of Munich.

8 December 1941: Murders begin at Chełmno

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.

10 December: Human Rights Day

10 December: Human Rights Day

10 December is International Human Rights Day, which marks the anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.