Music for Suffolk's Holocaust Memorial Day

Suffolk’s Holocaust Memorial Day will include music written for the occasion by local Composer Juliana Meyer, to be premiered at the proceedings, which will include a speech from the Mayoress and from Holocaust survivor, Dora Love. Juliana will perform the song with Capella Nova Choir of Amberfield School, on Sunday 27th January 12 noon at the Robert Cross Hall, Ipswich Corn Exchange. The song is also being used as part of the exhibition running all weekend 25th-27th January, also in the Robert Cross Hall. Both events are free and all are welcome!

The song entitled “Never Again” which Juliana Meyer has written for the occasion is a positive outlook of hope for a united future throughout the world’s nations, where discrimination and prejudices of any kind will not be tolerated. It embodies the notion that through remembering names of individual victims, we can relate to the true price of human suffering, and work together to ensure these atrocities do not happen within our own society, and societies around the world.

The song “Never Again” which can be heard this month on BBC Radio Suffolk, is available to download for free, or for a donation to the Suffolk Refugee Support Forum, online from www.JulianaMeyer.com/charity

The Suffolk Refugee Support Forum do vital work for our local community, offering a friendly face and guidance to refugees starting in a new culture where language and systems can be baffling and bureaucracy overwhelming. In 2007, Suffolk Refugee Support Forum assisted over 600 individuals, from a total of 38 countries around the world. They are in desperate need of funds and we’d like to encourage as many people as possible to donate, especially at a time of year when we renew our vow to help stop the suffering of people around the world who are victims of discrimination.

Fri 25th 10-2pm (schools only) 2-6pm exhibition/films
Sat 26th 10-5pm exhibition/films
Sun 27th Holocaust Memorial Day 10-4pm exhibition/films

“Carry the flame to the highest of peaks
We will remember, we won’t let this repeat
In every name a memory remains
So we remember, Never again”