Holocaust Memorial Day exhibitions

[citydreams]

Am very much looking forward to seeing this...


A unique photographic exhibition that visually documents the lives of Polish Jews is coming to London for the first time. The City Hall exhibition, entitled "And I Still See Their Faces – Images of Polish Jews", is curated by the Shalom Foundation and gives a powerful insight into the daily lives of Jewish men and women in pre-war Poland. It comes to London after being seen in Los Angeles, Mexico, Montreal, Hamburg, New York and Jerusalem.

CITY HALL EXHIBITION
'And I still see their faces' – Images of Polish Jews
and
The Boys - Triumph over adversity – Holocaust Survivors in Post War London
14 January - 1 February 2008
Monday to Friday, 8am-8pm
City Hall, The Queen’s Walk, London, SE1 2AA
Free

http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=jmKYJeNVJrF&b=478553

[ska invita]

Incidentally, January 27th is that date of the liberaiton of Aushwitz

[zenie]

Definitley pop down in a lunch hour to this :cool:

[London_Calling]

Okay I see, the Jewish Holocaust.

[lang rabbie]

Incidentally, January 27th is that date of the liberaiton of Aushwitz

Yes


Holocaust Memorial Day

Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) is commemorated on 27th January each year. This marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

HMD aims to commemorate, to educate and to prompt action in the UK. HMD commemorates the lives of those lost in the Holocaust; as a result of Nazi persecution and in more recent genocides. It educates about the Holocaust and it lessons for the present day. It prompts action in the UK highlighting the continuing dangers of racism, anti-semitism and all forms of discrimination.

The tragedies of Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur show that the international community, and each of us as citizens, has not truly understood the lessons of the Holocaust.

Ultimately the aim of HMD is to motivate people individually and collectively, to ensure that the horrendous crimes, racism and victimisation committed during the Holocaust and more recent genocides are neither forgotten nor repeated, whether in Europe or elsewhere in the world.

HMD is distinct from Yom HaShoah, the Jewish day of remembrance for the Jewish victims of the Nazis, that falls in late April.

Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (http://www.hmd.org.uk/about/)