Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council – Exhibition – HMD 2024
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Activity type: Public activity
Organisation name: Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council
Website: https://niarchive.org/resources/?fwp_project=holocaust-memorial-day
Address:
Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council
66 Portstewart Road
Coleraine
Co Londonderry
BT52 1EY
United Kingdom
Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council’s Good Relations Team is inviting people to attend a virtual exhibition to mark Holocaust Memorial Day this year.
The online exhibition will feature - among other materials - a booklet entitled ‘Canada’, which was penned by Mayor of Causeway Coast and Glens, Councillor Steven Callaghan following a visit to Auchswitz-Birkenau. The piece tells the moving story of a young Jewish boy who lived during the Holocaust.
The exhibition also features a “Timeline of Nazi Germany”, which provides a year-by-year account of how freedoms were gradually restricted and removed from the Jewish people from 1933 onwards, long before the start of the Second World War. Another resource outlines genocides that have taken place in other countries throughout the 20th century and in the early years of this century.
Additional materials include “Faces of the Holocaust” and “Personal Possessions of the Holocaust”, which feature poems and reflections by participants following their visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Mayor of Causeway Coast and Glens, Councillor Steven Callaghan said: “This year’s theme, The Fragility of Freedom should cause us to reflect on the fact that not everyone has the freedom that we enjoy and often take for granted. Freedom is fragile and is open to abuse.
“When we come across examples of people’s rights being restricted, we can speak up. And when we see or hear of whole groups being referred to in negative terms, we can remember that every individual should be accorded basic human rights and dignity.
“I would encourage everyone to go online and visit the virtual exhibition - it is a sobering reminder of where the mistreatment of whole groups of people can ultimately take us”
The online exhibition is available to view from 19th January 2024 and will remain indefinitely.
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