Keep the memory alive

2015 and beyond National HMD Event © South Ayrshire Council Holocaust survivor Ela Weissberger at the Scotland

2005 HMDT established

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2007 466 activities

27 January, Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD), provides an opportunity for everyone to 2008 remember the millions of people murdered % during the Holocaust, under Nazi Persecution 530 activities and in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, 83 Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. On Holocaust of people in the Memorial Day we honour the survivors UK say they have 2009 of these atrocities and use the lessons of heard of Holocaust their experience to challenge hatred and Memorial Day* 445 discrimination today. activities (up from 77% in 2014) This year marked a significant milestone anniversary, 70 years since the liberation of 2010 Auschwitz-Birkenau. Each year we identify a theme to inspire innovative and creative 758 activities; this year the theme urged us all % activities to Keep the memory alive. 31 2011 The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust is the of British adults charity established by the UK Government report that they 1,276 to promote and support HMD in the UK. know HMD well* activities The powerful messages of HMD reverberate (up from 21% in 2014) throughout the year. This booklet contains 2012 a snapshot of the continued growth of HMD in the UK and the diverse ways that people 1,443 engaged with the theme. We also introduce activities our theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2016: Don’t stand by. 1.3 2015 2013 million people 2,006 watched the UK activities Commemorative * The research for the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust was carried Ceremony on 2014 out by Opinion Matters between 11 February and 17 February 2015 with a sample of 2,048 UK adults. BBC Two. 3,614 2,400 activities activities

2 3 We sent out Dr Katy Radford Northern Ireland Pop-up film recordings: why Gateshead College is the Holocaust relevant in Northern Ireland? As 100,000 part of her research project about HMD in ‘About HMD’ Carole Gillespie Sharon Artley Northern Ireland, Dr Katy Radford from the Scotland North East booklets Institute for Conflict Research explored the relevance of remembering the Holocaust Beautiful crochet flowers Sporting personalities mark in an area where sectarian violence is and Guardian of the Holocaust anniversary part of the shared past. One participant Memory cards were given with 70 person relay at said ‘our experience is that hate can start to attendees at the Glasgow schools Gateshead International Stadium. As part very simply and if we don’t stop the lack HMD event. Knitting groups across the of their Holocaust Memorial Day project, of tolerance and respect, where can that UK – and a few from abroad – crocheted Gateshead College students organised We ran end up?’ 390 flowers in a week for the event. Each a 70 person relay. Joined by sports 15 one was attached to a luggage label with personalities, including triple Paralympic workshops across the the name of someone murdered during champion Stephen Miller and members UK to share our theme Sally Richards Wales the Holocaust and given to attendees to of Gateshead Football Club, a flag was and inspire fresh ideas encourage them to keep that person’s passed from person to person during a 15 Barry Gallery in Wales memory alive. minute relay race. The event was covered marked HMD for the ninth by local ITV news. year. Children took part in Mandy Penellum creative workshops and produced over North West Rosie Crook 250 butterflies to remember the children Liverpool City Council Yorkshire and of the Theresienstadt concentration camp. the Humber An art installation entitled never saw invited diverse members another butterfly displayed the children’s of the community to light Kirklees Council urged the responses to poems from the camp. candles for 70 days in the lead up to HMD. public to step into someone As part of a larger programme of activities else’s shoes. At an event led by young for HMD, Liverpool City Council lit candles people, cultural and faith groups people Jinny Uppington South West in memory of someone murdered during came together to step into someone the Holocaust, and shared images of each else’s shoes in a spirit of peace and Bristol’s M Shed Museum lighting on social media, helping to reach co-operation. Stories in shoeboxes were hosted the city’s civic HMD out to the general public. presented at the event and survivor Iby ceremony and featured the Knill lit a special candle of remembrance lighting of one of the 70 candles. Jennifer Ross alongside a Hungarian Roma child. As part of a range of events across Bristol, East Midlands the M Shed Museum hosted the city’s LOCAL SUPPORT civic ceremony, complete with the lighting Derby arts centre QUAD Kate Beckwith of one of Sir Anish Kapoor’s 70 candles brought its diverse East of FOR HMD for 70 years. Second generation Holocaust community together to Basildon Children’s Support survivors told the stories of their parents, mark HMD and celebrate those who have Services engaged hard-to- and music and film were used to mark escaped persecution to find sanctuary reach young people through in the city. Derby became home to many This year nine Regional and National the day. Holocaust survivor Joan Salter’s life story. Bosnians fleeing the war 20 years ago Support Workers encouraged local Using our easy read life story, the students and this HMD event celebrated how these activity organisers to hold events to who have social, emotional, behavioural or people found safety in the East Midlands. mark Holocaust Memorial Day in their physical needs, explored the changes that It featured music, spoken word, art and communities. Support Workers provide Joan Salter experienced as a young girl dance from Armenian, Ukrainian, Jewish, local knowledge and help activity because of the Holocaust. This was part Gypsy and Bosnian communities, as well organisers generate new ideas for of a week of cross curricular activities over as input from local students. One of Sir engaging and innovative activities. three campuses involving more than 200 Anish Kapoor’s 70 candles was also lit young people. Here are some of their HMD highlights. at the ceremony.

4 Pupils at CSSSE, Basildon 5 Barry Gallery, south Wales with their HMD plate Liverpool

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Northern Ireland 70 CANDLES FOR 70 YEARS

Holocaust Memorial Day 2015 marked 70 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. To mark this important milestone, we worked Wales England with sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor to design 70 candles that were lit at 70 local commemorations. Chester-le-Street From Stornoway to Southend-on-sea, and from Belfast to Bristol, the candles symbolically linked commemorations taking place across the UK. 70 candles for 70 years drew attention to the range and diversity of activities and connected Norwich local events to the UK Commemorative Event Sir Anish Kapoor where six of the candles were lit. Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP took one of these candles to be lit at Auschwitz. Some of the locations hosting these unique candles were chosen for their historical significance, such as Lowestoft Railway Station where 200 Kindertransport refugees arrived in December 1938.

6 7 Cardiff St Helens Newton Mearns Our education 38 resources were viewed Youth Champions organised their 45,000 own activities. times (Up from 15 in 2014) Resources for educators

Supporting young people to We empowered 38 young people to We produced a wide range of lesson be the driving force behind Holocaust plans, assemblies and classroom champion the messages of HMD. Memorial Day through our HMD Youth activities. Schools and educators Champions programme. We provided: used these to inspire their students, finding creative ways to Keep the • Three youth led workshops in memory alive. ‘One of the important , Edinburgh and Manchester. lessons we can learn • A youth ‘get involved’ guide and poster. • Graeme High School in Falkirk created their own stolpersteine for the people from the Holocaust is that • An HMD Youth Champions network: they had been tasked to remember on we need to stand up when Facebook groups and Youth Champion their Guardian of the Memory cards. we believe something is Voices newsletter to share advice, not right.’ experiences and opportunities. • We partnered with Picturehouse Education to enable over Michaela Crawley directed a play about the Youth Champions encouraged guests 400 students across the life of Anne Frank at her school for HMD, at the UK Commemorative Event to UK to watch a Holocaust which was featured on BBC Look North and ‘Many pupils started to feel a make a pledge to keep the memory of documentary and then personal connection to their ITV Tyne Tees News. the Holocaust alive by contributing to hear a Holocaust survivor Holocaust victim, and felt our I Will exhibition. tell their story. personally responsible for • Cliffe Wood Brownies in Kent made keeping the memory alive.’ their own memory boxes. Becky Crichton, teacher at Graeme High School hmd.org.uk/education

2nd Cliffe Wood Brownies, Kent © Girlguiding

8 9 UK Commemorative Event

On 27 January the UK’s Holocaust survivors and refugees came together with its political and faith leadership, in the presence of Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, to remember the Holocaust and mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz at Westminster Central Hall. We partnered with the BBC to produce the UK Commemorative Ceremony, narrated by Adrian Lester OBE and featuring contributions from Christopher Eccleston, Laurence Fox, Keeley Hawes, Sir John Hurt, Natasha Kaplinsky, Sarah and Michael Palin. The audience, which was made up of many survivors, witnessed music, poetry and personal testimony to mark 70 years since the liberation. The UK Commemorative Ceremony was broadcast to over 1.3 million people on BBC Two. Some 350 people joined our reception for Holocaust and genocide survivors, including ‘Holocaust Memorial Day brings Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales together people of every faith and in and Duchess of Cornwall, the Prime Minister, every community of our country. Here the Deputy Prime Minister, the Leader of the in Britain, we will always remember’ Opposition, the Chief Rabbi and the Archbishop of Canterbury. We were supported by a team of Rt Hon David Cameron MP, Prime Minister 100 fantastic volunteers.

10 11 print and online MEDIA AND SOCIAL MEDIA 956 pieces Supporting the development We reached new audiences of the sector with features in: 50broadcast pieces Our Collaborative Group brought together organisations from the sector of Holocaust and genocide remembrance and education to work collaboratively for Holocaust 8,808 Memorial Day. Stella, Sunday Telegraph Facebook likes up What is the place for perpetrators in by 27 per cent Holocaust and genocide commemoration and education? Our Public Conversation 2014, chaired 5,808 by columnist Jonathan Twitter followers Freedland, presented a challenging Daily Star The Guardian up by 61 per cent and sensitive topic but one which raises The Sunday Times important questions.

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12 13 The Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland and Rwandan survivor Eric Murangwa ‘I thought about using the project as a way of honouring my younger brother who was killed during the Genocide. He was only seven years old. I would have wished to have a photograph of him to show today but all of the photos we had back then were destroyed. We don’t have anything you can hold and remember.’ Eric Murangwa, Survivor of the Genocide in Rwanda and founder of Football for Hope, Peace and Unity.

Sokphal Din’s Moving Portrait exhibited at the Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck College, London

‘It’s great that there is a project that reminds people not Keeping the only that this has happened, but that it memory alive continues to happen’ through the arts: Belfast Eric Murangwa’s Moving Portrait on a Big Screen in Glasgow Moving Portraits Avram and Vera Schaufeld’s Moving Portrait projected onto the Royal Festival Hall Our Moving Portraits of Holocaust and genocide ‘Fantastic survivors were brought to the public in an exhibition, at 45 local activities and at a series of large-scale idea, projections on big screens across the UK. innovative and an The portraits show survivors with objects that are excellent way deeply significant to them. The moving element of to visually the pictures evoked the subtlety of memory and represent helped to bring them to life. survivors and aid keeping They were shown in Belfast, Bradford, Bristol, the memory Glasgow, Manchester, Middlesbrough, Irvine, alive.’ Portsmouth and Southend-on-sea. Oliver Wray, visitor

14 15 Stories were shared Memory Makers The artists and survivors who Young illustrator and visual artist Gideon took part in the project are: Summerfield, met Holocaust survivors films were watched and their families.

7,800 Ceramicist Clare times across Twomey met with Film director Debs 72,000 Nisad ‘Šiško’ Paterson met with social media times Jakupović, survivor Holocaust survivor of the Omarska Janine Webber. concentration camp. ‘By meeting with Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and Collage artist contributing to the Memory Martin O’Neill, in Visually-impaired Makers project I hope more collaboration with illustrator Kimberly people will mark Holocaust filmmakerAndrew Burrows met with Memorial Day by reading and Griffin, met with Holocaust survivor Holocaust survivor Sabina Miller. listening to the testimony Bettine Le Beau. of Holocaust survivors.’ Stephen Fry Welsh animator Poet Sarah Hesketh Gemma Green-Hope, met with Holocaust met with Auschwitz survivor Eve Kugler. survivor Ivor Perl.

Inspired by our ‘ She left the war without a family so I wanted to Memory Makers illustrate the family she has now, with Sabina Memory artists, Your surrounded by her grandchildren, the youngest Response invited of which is enveloped in her only possession left Makers members of the from the war – a patterned cardigan – which will British public to be passed down through the generations.’ submit their own Kimberly Burrows artistic responses Memory Makers helped to to survivors’ life ‘ It was an honour to meet the talented poet bring the stories of survivors stories. Sarah Hesketh and see the profound and moving to a new generation. poem she created. I hope that taking part in Mairi, a pupil at Stephen Fry joined a Memory Makers will mean a new generation Knox Academy, diverse group of British hears and learns our important stories’ was so moved artists and Holocaust and , Holocaust survivor after attending an Eve Kugler genocide survivors to take HMD event in Edinburgh that she produced part in Memory Makers, ‘ Many of us learn about the terrible events of this artwork and uploaded it to our Memory which explored the life the Holocaust but facts alone are not enough. Makers online gallery. stories of survivors through It’s important to hear survivors’ stories because they speak for the millions of people who weren’t writing, poetry, ceramics, You can explore images from Memory permitted to tell theirs.’ film, animation, illustration Makers on the following pages or visit Stephen Fry meets Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and collage. keepthememoryalive.hmd.org.uk Gemma Green-Hope, animator and filmmaker

16 17 Above left Avram and Vera Schaufeld’s Moving Portrait

Left Eric Murangwa’s Moving Portrait

Above Look closely by David Southwell

18 19 Above A lucky girl by Martin O’Neill, for Bettine Le Beau

Right Minia Jay and her great-granddaughter Hannah, by Gideon Summerfield

20 21 In Srebrenica in July 1995 Dutch soldiers stood by as the Bosnian Serb Army took Muslim men and boys away to be murdered

HMD 2016: Don’t Stand By

The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2016 is Don’t stand by. The Holocaust ‘I swore never to be silent and subsequent genocides took place whenever and wherever because local populations allowed human beings endure insidious persecution to take root. Whilst suffering and humiliation. some actively supported or facilitated state We must always take policies of persecution, the vast majority sides. Neutrality helps stood by silently – at best, afraid to speak the oppressor, never the out; at worst, indifferent. Bystanders victim. Silence encourages enabled the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution the tormentor, never the and subsequent genocides to take place. tormented.’ In 2016 we want to build on the legacy of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel HMD 2015, by being forward-looking, by having a clear call to action and focusing on the contemporary relevance of the Front cover: Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert lights a candle at the Holocaust and subsequent genocides. UK Event for HMD, assisted by TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall; Holocaust survivor Ela Weissberger Don’t stand by encourages people to at the Scotland National HMD Event © South Ayrshire Council; consider their individual responsibilities pledges at our I will installation; candle lighting at Kirklees HMD, Dewsbury Town Hall not to be bystanders to hate crime and Back cover: Holocaust survivor Iby Knill lighting the 70 candles prejudice, nor to international threats for 70 years candle at Kirklees HMD, Dewsbury Town Hall; Portrait of Ben Abeles by Claire Elizabeth Jackson of genocide. Stolpersteine made by students at Graeme High School, Falkirk

22 23 The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust is the charity, established by the UK Government, that promotes and supports Holocaust Memorial Day. We encourage, inspire and support individuals and organisations across the UK to play their part in learning lessons from the past to create a safer, better future. HMDT is supported by

‘Why did I survive, when so many died? Perhaps I survived to bear witness, to keep the memory alive’ Iby Knill, Survivor of Auschwitz

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