Islington Council – Holocaust Memorial Day – HMD 2024
Activity information
Activity type: Public activity
Organisation name: Islington Council
Address:
Islington Assembly Hall
Upper Street
London
London
N1 2UD
United Kingdom
Holocaust Memorial Day is observed every year and is an opportunity for us to come together to learn, share and remember. This event commemorates the historical atrocities of genocides worldwide including the holocaust and places such as Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur, Iraq and Cambodia.
The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2024 is Fragility of Freedom. Freedom means different things to different people. In every genocide that has taken place, those who are targeted for persecution have had their freedom restricted and removed before many of them are murdered.
This event will include a presentation from a daughter sharing her mother’s story of escaping arrest for being Jewish. As next year’s Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, the event will acknowledge how the genocide shattered freedom in Rwanda. We will also have a Kurdish speaker share their account of the Halabja massacre.
There will be music from the World Harmony Orchestra, whose musicians include refugees from around the world.
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