Oxford City Council – HMD Service – HMD 2024
Activity information
Activity type: Public activity
Organisation name: Oxford City Council
Address:
Oxford Town Hall
St Aldates
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 1BX
United Kingdom
Oxford will mark Holocaust Memorial Day with an in-person service hosted by Oxford City Council on Friday 26 January 2024 at Oxford Town Hall.
Holocaust Memorial Day is a day to remember and learn about the Holocaust, Nazi persecution and the genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Srebrenica, and Darfur.
The service of reflection is open to people of any faith and none. It will take place at 11am in the Assembly Room at Oxford Town Hall.
Historian and Doctoral Researcher, Barnabas Balint, will be reflecting on this year’s theme, Fragility of Freedom, and the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. Balint is a longstanding member of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust's Youth Forum and an alum of the Holocaust Educational Trust's Regional Ambassador programme.
The service will feature video testimony from survivors of the Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide which Balint produced for the Trust.
The service will also feature prayers and reflections from the city’s faith leaders and a poetry reading from Anneliese Dodds MP.
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