Community Solidarity Stroud District – Holocaust Memorial Day – HMD 2024

Activity information

Activity type: Public activity

Organisation name: Community Solidarity Stroud District

Website: https://communitysolidaritystrouddistrict.org/2024/01/15/hmd24/

Address:
Lansdown Hall
Lansdown Road
Stroud
Gloucestershire
GL5 1BB
United Kingdom

Please join us in reflection and remembrance on Sunday 28th January from 2-3pm at the Lansdown Hall (GL5 1BB) for our Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony.
The theme for this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day is Fragility of Freedom.
The event will include speakers from our local Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities. We will also hear about Hitler’s forgotten victims - disabled people.
Baron Mendes da Costa from the Three Counties Liberal Jewish Community will read the Kaddish.
There will be short speeches from Community Solidarity Stroud District, Stroud Trades Council, Stroud District Together With Refugees and Stroud Against Racism.
Music will be provided by the Stroud Red Band and Grove Singers.

Later in the day at the same venue:
* 3.30-5.30pm: discussion of Primo Levi’s book, The Drowned and The Saved, hosted by Stroud Radical Reading Group.
* 7.30pm: screening of the film Denial as part of Stroud Film Festival.
Denial is based on the acclaimed book "History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier," and adapted for the screen by David Hare. It tells the story of historian Deborah Lipstadt's legal battle for historical truth against David Irving, who accused her of libel when she called him a Holocaust denier.
With the the burden of proof on the accused in defamation cases, it was up to Lipstadt and her legal team to prove that the Holocaust occurred.
This will be a ticketed event - with tickets priced at £8/6/4.
A link to buy tickets will be added on this page as soon as it is available, or check the Festival website stroudfilmfestival.org.

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