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Virtual Candle: Thank You from HMDT
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- Matt Lucas supports HMD 2007 (2007)
- HMDT Annual Conference 2007 (2007)
- HMD 2007 Commemorative Book (2007)
- 75 Days to HMD08 (2007)
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- 25 Days to HMD08 (2007)
- Education Matters Issue 1 (2007)
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- HMDT Youth Conference (2007)
- June 2007 Newsletter (2007)
- HMDT Volunteer Opportunity (2007)
- HMD08 Pack Delivery Delays (2007)
- September 2007 Newsletter (2007)
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- HMD08 - A Message to Football Clubs (2007)
- HMD08 Short Film Competition (2007)
- Ben Helfgott on Desert Island Discs (2007)
- General Romeo Dallaire at National Commemoration (2006)
- Dedication to Holocaust Memorial Day (2006)
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- October 2006 Newsletter (2006)
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- The Queen to host reception for HMD 05 (2005)
- Appointment of Chair and Trustees (2005)
- London to host HMD 05 (2005)
- 60th Anniversary Commemorations (2005)
- Holocaust Memorial Day Trust welcomes the UN resolution designating an annual Holocaust Memorial Day (2005)
Over 25,000 people took the time over Holocaust Memorial Day 2008 to light a virtual candle on the HMDT website www.hmd.org.uk
Each flame lit during the three weeks that this ran on the website represents 440 of the Jews, Gypsies, gay men and lesbians, Black Germans, mentally and physically disabled people, Trade Unionists and Jehovah’s Witnesses killed under the Nazi regime.
Chair of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, Dr Stephen Smith thanked those who had taken the time to light the candle and said: “Our theme for HMD08 was ‘Imagine…remember, reflect, react’. Remembrance is important, because the people who became the victims of the Nazis were not only killed, but all trace of them was removed. Remembrance reminds us that their lives as individuals were important. Reflection gives us time to work it out, to think it through, to wonder, to question, to challenge ourselves. The reflection is not a pause for meditation, but a personal challenge. Given similar circumstances, regardless of background, what would we have done? In the community today, how do we make an impact? Do we stand up and speak out, or are we complicit through our silence? To remember, reflect and react does not change history; it does not change the world. It changes us.”
