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Agnes Grunwald-Spier: 'The Other Schindlers'

Agnes Grunwald-Spier: 'The Other Schindlers'

Agnes Grunwald-Spier is a former trustee of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. In this podcast she talks about her book, The Other Schindlers, which recounts the stories of people who rescued Jews from the Holocaust.

Holocaust survivor Eve Kugler meets poet Sarah Hesketh

Holocaust survivor Eve Kugler meets poet Sarah Hesketh

Our Memory Makers project paired Holocaust and genocide survivors with nine British artists, who responded to their stories with works of art for Holocaust Memorial Day 2015. Holocaust survivor Eve Kugler met poet Sarah Hesketh.

UK Commemorative Event for HMD 2014

UK Commemorative Event for HMD 2014

Survivors of the Holocaust and subsequent genocides joined politicians and dignitaries at the UK's Commemorative Event for Holocaust Memorial Day in Westminster.

Bournemouth and Poole Civic Event 2016

Bournemouth and Poole Civic Event 2016

Every year, Bournemouth and Poole HMD Committee organise a civic event. In 2016, 700 people attended the moving event at Bournemouth International Centre - the largest event in the region.

Before the Holocaust

Before the Holocaust

For hundreds of years, people have been persecuted and murdered because of their identity. This background knowledge is essential to understanding how the legal concept of ‘genocide’ was developed.

Learn about the Holocaust and genocides

On Holocaust Memorial Day, we remember the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, and the millions of people killed under Nazi persecution of other groups, and during more recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.