Magdalen College – Laura Marks CBE in conversation with Dinah Rose KC – HMD 2024
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Activity type: Public activity
Organisation name: Magdalen College, University of Oxford
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Magdalen College is pleased to invite you and your members to a special event for Holocaust Memorial Day, on Thursday 25th January 2024 at 5pm in the Summer Common Room, Magdalen College.
Led by the College President, Dinah Rose KC, the event will reflect on the history, memory, and contemporary relevance of the Holocaust. We are excited to welcome Laura Marks CBE, Chair of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and activist focussing on issues relating to faith and gender, for what promises to be a stimulating discussion.
Holocaust Memorial Day takes place each year on 27th January, commemorating the liberation of the largest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau. On HMD, we remember the six million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust, as well as the millions who have been killed in Nazi persecution of other groups and in more recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.
Laura joined the board of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust in 2013 and became Chair of the trustees in 2016. She is founder of Mitzvah Day, a charity which brings people of different faiths together through social action, and now operates in over 20 countries. She also co-founded Nisa-Nashim, a national Muslim Jewish women’s network. At this event, the President will lead a conversation with Laura about Holocaust Memorial Day and her work with Jewish and interfaith communities in the UK.
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