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Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) offers museums and galleries an opportunity to spark interest and to inspire creativity through your collections, to challenge discrimination and promote a positive activity for the whole community. This Get involved guide gives you examples and practical suggestions for what you can do in your museum or gallery to mark HMD.
Libraries play a key role in communities by providing a cultural hub for everyone to enjoy and a space to ask questions, learn and explore. This Get involved guide gives you examples and practical suggestions for what you can do in your library to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, and how you can learn from genocide to work towards a better future.
Faith and interfaith organisations play a crucial role in fostering understanding and good relationships between different faith groups in the UK. Marking Holocaust Memorial Day is an opportunity for different faiths and the non-religious to come together to celebrate diversity in their communities, challenge prejudice and intolerance, and create a safer, better future.
Emergency services play a vital role in tackling prejudice and discrimination by protecting our diverse communities and encouraging greater cohesion. This Get involved guide gives you examples and practical suggestions for what you can do as an emergency service to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, and how you can learn from genocide to work towards a better future.
On Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD), universities and colleges play a vital role in learning from genocide – for a better future. HMD can be an opportunity to learn from the Holocaust and genocides that followed to address issues of prejudice and discrimination in the UK today. This Get involved guide gives you examples and practical suggestions for what you can do in your college or university to mark HMD.
Holocaust Memorial Day offers cinemas an opportunity to use relevant films to facilitate learning about the Holocaust, Nazi persecution of other groups and genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur; to challenge discrimination and promote a positive activity for the whole community. This Get involved guide gives you examples and practical suggestions for what you can do at your cinema to mark HMD.
Marcel Hoffmann was one of at least 25 French railway workers from Lille, northern France, who, in 1942, helped more than 40 Jewish children and adults escape deportation.
Var Ashe Houston BEM, survivor of the genocide in Cambodia, gives testimony to St Nicolas 9th Guildford Scouts for the UK Holocaust Memorial Day 2022 Ceremony.
Jeddah Zakaria, survivor of the genocide in Darfur, gives testimony to The Archbishop of Canterbury for the UK Holocaust Memorial Day Ceremony.
Antoinette Mutabazi, survivor of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, gives testimony to South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue at the UK Holocaust Memorial Day 2022 Ceremony.