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After the Holocaust, those who survived often faced incomprehension and even hostility. People who went back to where they had previously lived frequently discovered that their homes were occupied by other people and that their belongings were gone. They were treated with fear and resentment.
On Thursday 25 January 2018 survivors of the Holocaust and genocide were joined by guests, including faith, civic and political leaders, at the UK Commemorative Ceremony for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2018.
To mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2023 in Scotland, we partnered with Edinburgh Interfaith Association to produced this short film. The film is dedicated to those who lost their lives in the Holocaust, the Nazi persecution of other groups, and in more recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur, and is suitable for schools, families and communities to watch as part of a Holocaust Memorial Day activity.
Young people took the lead on a full programme of drama and music for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) in Rotherham. The event was organised as a collaboration between Rotherham Early Help (Rotherham Borough Council), the Hudderfield-based CHOL Theatre arts company, and MyPlace/YMCA community centre.
On 15 April 1945, British troops liberated Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp.
We hear from survivors of the Holocaust and recent genocides about what Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee means to them as former refugees to the UK.
The Buchenwald Concentration Camp was liberated on 11 April 1945 by American troops.
Scotland’s national Holocaust Memorial Day event for 2014 took place on 27 January in Stirling’s Macrobert Arts Centre, with a diverse programme including survivor speeches, music and film; all centred on the theme of Journeys.