HMD2021 ONLINE COMMEMORATION

Southampton will be marking the UK’s national Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day with a commemorative online event organised by the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton together with Solent University.

 

The Memorial Day is dedicated to the remembrance of victims who were persecuted as a result of genocide and discusses the discriminatory issues which society faces today. This year, the theme is ‘Be the Light in the Darkness’.

 

The event will take place online via Zoom, on Tuesday 26 January 2021 at 6pm. The event is free, but registration is required. Please note that the event will be recorded.

 

The Mayor of Southampton, Councillor Sue Blatchford, will open the evening, together with the University of Southampton Vice-President for Education Prof. Alex Neil, the Pro Vice-Chancellor of Solent University Nona McDuff OBE, and Dr. Claire Le Foll, Director of the Parkes Institute. The evening will feature a testimony by Holocaust survivor Henry Schachter OBE, followed by a questions and answers session, and a performance by students from Solent University of scenes from the play Kindertransport by Diane Samuels.

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