Southend City Council – Service of Commemoration – HMD 2024
Activity information
Activity type: Public activity
Organisation name: Southend City Council
Website: http://www.southend.gov.uk
Address:
Civic Centre
Victoria Avenue
Southend on Sea
Essex
SS2 6ER
United Kingdom
Southend City Council will hold a Service of Commemoration on Sunday 28th January, 3pm at the Civic Centre, Southend on Sea, SS2 6ER.
This annual event will include music, poetry and readings, with a presentation from a local secondary school. There will be an address given by Holocaust Survivor Mr Ivan Shaw BEM, accompanied by his son Philip Shaw as a second generation Holocaust Survivor.
2 exhibitions will be on display outside the Council Chamber for all to view before and after the service:
Fate Unknown: The Search for the Missing after the Holocaust
By the end of the Second World War, millions of people had been murdered or displaced by war and genocide. Families and communities were torn apart. Many were missing, and some people’s fates remain unclear to this day. (Wiener Holocaust Library)
The Righteous Among the Nations
In a world in which hostility and indifference prevailed, there was a small non-Jewish minority who regarded the Jews as fellow human beings who came within the bounds of their universe of obligation. These individuals mustered extraordinary courage to uphold human values, and to rescue hunted Jews with no expectation of remuneration. (Yad Vashem)
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