by Irene Glausiusz, Office Volunteer ‘Many war memorials commemorate people who have died’ said Rabbi Dr Abraham Levy, Head of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews’ Congregation, when he spoke at City Hall in London during the recent 2012 Holocaust Memorial Day event, hosted by Mayor of London Boris Johnson. What is different about the monument in [...]
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‘Speak Up, Speak Out’ Holocaust Memorial Day, City Hall, 24th January 2012
Posted in In the news, Memorials Abroad, Uncategorized, Unusual memorials, tagged Holocaust, WW2 on 14 February, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Holocaust Remembrance Encourages Present Day Reflection
Posted in Events, In the news, tagged Holocaust, Imperial War Museum, Refugees, Remembrance, WW2 on 10 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This article was submitted by UKNIWM volunteer Irene Glausiusz, Chair of the ‘Memorial to Evacuation’ Steering Committee. To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, a moving act of remembrance took place on the last Tuesday in January under a cloudless sky beside Southwark Council’s Holocaust Memorial tree in the Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park outside the Imperial War Museum. The [...]
Marking Holocaust Memorial Day
Posted in In the news, tagged Holocaust on 28 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BBC News has some photographs of events that were held over the weekend to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. Click to see images from BBC News Not surprisingly, many of the events used memorials as their focus and others created new memorials, such as a Scout group that planted a memorial tree near Lewes, Sussex. Holocaust survivors played a prominent role [...]
Holocaust Memorial Day – 27 January
Posted in In the news, Memorials from the archive, tagged Holocaust, WW2 on 22 January, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This coming Sunday is Holocaust Memorial Day. Its aim is to commemorate not only those killed in the Holocaust and as a result of Nazi persecution, but those who have died in more recent genocides such as Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur. It seeks to educate people about the Holocaust and highlight the continuing dangers of racism, anti-semitism and all [...]
Refugee Week #1 – Kindertransport
Posted in In the news, Memorials from the archive, tagged Holocaust, Refugees, WW2 on 20 June, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This week is Refugee Week and we will be highlighting some war memorials that commemorate refugees. The first is the Kindertransport memorial, unveiled in 2006 outside Liverpool Street Station, London. The memorial consists of a group of five lifesize bronze statues of children. They are depicted standing at the end of a railway line with their luggage. The inscription reads as [...]
