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Holocaust Memorial Day 2019 Postcard Project

Holocaust Memorial Day 2019 Postcard Project

The Postcard Project for Holocaust Memorial Day 2019 explored the theme: Torn from home. Participants learned about the life stories of survivors who were forced to flee their homes during the Holocaust and the Genocide in Cambodia, and wrote a message to them.

Joan Salter - Moving Portrait

Joan Salter - Moving Portrait

Holocaust Memorial Day Trust commissioned a special project entitled Moving Portraits. This is a collection of five photographs of genocide survivors, with each individual featured holding an object that holds significance to them.

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The Holocaust was a tragically defining episode of the 20th Century, a crisis for European civilisation and a universal catastrophe for humanity. It shook the foundations of modern civilisation and its unprecedented character and horror will always hold universal meaning.

2 May 1933: Dissolution of German Trade Unions

On 2 May 1933, just three months after Adolf Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor of Germany, the SA and police occupied the offices of German Trade Unions, seizing control of them.