Holocaust Memorial Day 2010

Artwork

• HMD Logo with date

  HMD logo, with date.

For Adults

• Books for Adults - The Children of Freedom

  Book group activity on ‘The Children of Freedom’ by Mark Levy for adult reading groups.

• Books for Adults - Something is Going to Fall Like Rain

  Book group activity for the novel Something is Going to Fall Like Rain which focuses on aid workers in Darfur.

For Young People

• Books for Young People - The Little Boy Star: An Allegory of the Holocaust

  Book group activity for young people based on the picture book The Little Boy Star.

Image library

• Gates, Railway and Tower at Auschwitz-Birkenau

  Gate tower, ramp and railway line at Auschwitz-Birkenau

• Candle image

  Candle image used on HMDT materials.

Local Activities Guidelines

• HMD 2010 Publicity Advice

  Advice on increasing publicity for and attendance at your HMD 2010 event

Poetry

• We Remember Them - Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Riemer

Survivor Stories

• Rwandan Testimony: Freddy Mutanguha

  My name is Freddy and I was 18 years old at the time of the genocide.

• Rwandan Testimony: Beata Uwazaninka

  My name is Beata and I was born in Rwanda in 1980. At the time of the genocide, I was 14 years old. My father’s name was Joseph Nemeye and my mother’s Devotha Uwimana.

• Holocaust Testimony: Roman Halter

  I was 12 years old in September 1939 when Hitler’s troops entered Poland. I was the seventh child in our family and the youngest…

• Holocaust Testimony: Nicole David

  I was born in Antwerp in September 1936, the only daughter of Chawa Matzner and Munisch Schneider, my parents having moved to Belgium from Poland in the 1920s

• Holocaust Testimony: Kitty Hart-Moxon

  I was born Kitty Felix in a town called Bielsko in Poland, which in 1939 was very close to the German and Czechoslovakian frontiers.

• Holocaust Testimony: Freddie Knoller

  I was stunned looking at a bundle of letters and seeing the unmistakable, elegant handwriting of my father who perished in Auschwitz in 1943…

• Holocaust Testimony: Eve, Rudi and Paul Oppenheimer: The Last Train From Belsen

  Every Holocaust survivor has a different story. This is certainly true for the story of the three Oppenheimer children, Eve, Rudi and Paul.

• Holocaust Testimony: Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

  I was born in the town of Breslau, which was German then and is Polish now. My father was a lawyer and my mother was a beautiful lady and a very fine violinist.

• Gypsy (Roma and Sinti) - The History of the Bock Family

  The Bock Family have spent most of their lives fleeing persecution and prejudice because they are Romany.

• Cambodian Testimony: Denise Affonco

  The children no longer have any vitality, no inclination to play or to laugh…