University of Essex – Reading of Names – HMD 2024
Activity information
Activity type: Public activity
Organisation name: University of Essex
Website: https://www.essex.ac.uk/event-series/holocaust-memorial-week
Address:
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
Essex
CO4 3SQ
United Kingdom
Each year on Holocaust Memorial Day we come together to remember the victims of the Holocaust and other genocides with the Reading of Names. This year, the Reading of Names will take place the day before Holocaust Memorial Day, on Friday 26 January.
The Reading of Names is an event where we read out and project onto our campus walls, the names of Holocaust victims from different affected communities. Each name will be read aloud by a member of the Essex community and represents the many whose names we also do not know.
We ask our University community to take part in this act of remembrance, reading names in-person from 10.50am-11.10am, 11.50am-12.10pm, 12.50pm-1.10pm and 1.50pm-2.10pm. The spirit of this act of remembrance is perhaps best expressed by David Berger, who at the age of 19 was shot dead in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1941. David said 'If something happens, I would want there to be somebody who would remember that someone named D. Berger had once lived. This will make things easier for me in the difficult moments'.
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