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Yvonne Bernstein

Yvonne Bernstein

Yvonne Bernstein was one of thousands of Jewish children hidden across Europe during the Holocaust. Her identity disguised, she was able to survive, avoiding the fate of 1.5 million Jewish children who were murdered by the Nazis.

Sophie Masereka

Sophie Masereka

In this transcript of her speech to the UK HMD 2013 Commemorative Event, Sophie Masereka describes how she survived the Genocide in Rwanda.

HMDT Blog: Auschwitz-Birkenau's Roma survivors

HMDT Blog: Auschwitz-Birkenau's Roma survivors

During this year’s Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month, historian Rainer Schulze reminds us of the systematic persecution the Roma and Sinti suffered during the period of Nazi rule in Germany and in Nazi-occupied Europe.

Immaculée Hedden

Immaculée Hedden

Immaculée Hedden lived and worked in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, before and during the genocide there. She was protected from danger many times; finding refuge with family, at an orphanage and in the basement of a cathedral in Kigali.

Survivors receive thousands of HMD postcards

Survivors receive thousands of HMD postcards

Renee Bornstein, survivor of the Holocaust, and Sokphal Din, survivor of the Genocide in Cambodia, are delighted to have received thousands of messages from people who took part in the Postcard Project for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2019.