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HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY: 27 TH JANUARY 2007

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY: 27 TH JANUARY 2007. LET US ALL REMEMBER THOSE WHO HAVE LEFT THIS WORLD IN THE MOST BRUTAL AND TERRIFYING OF WAYS. Key Q: What is Holocaust Memorial Day?. It is about commemorating all of the communities who suffered as a result of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution.

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HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY: 27 TH JANUARY 2007

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  1. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY: 27TH JANUARY 2007 LET US ALL REMEMBER THOSE WHO HAVE LEFT THIS WORLD IN THE MOST BRUTAL AND TERRIFYING OF WAYS.

  2. Key Q: What is Holocaust Memorial Day? • It is about commemorating all of the communities who suffered as a result of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution. • It also provides us all with an opportunity to reflect on more recent atrocities that raise similar issues. • The tragedies of Rwanda, Kosovo, Zimbabwe and other terrible events in the world show that all of humanity has lessons to learn.

  3. Key Q: Why remember on the 27th January? • This date is the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. This is seen as a powerful symbol of the horrors of the Holocaust. • Victims included; Jews, Gypsies, East European civilians, Russian prisoners of war, trade unionists, political opponents, disabled people, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals and Black Germans.

  4. Auschwitz-Birkenau:

  5. The wall where the Nazi prisoners were shot:

  6. The last remaining gas chamber in the camp:

  7. The old carriage in Warsaw that carried Nazi prisoners. The crosses represent the prisoners:

  8. One of many quotes that highlights Hitler’s attitude towards the Jews from the beginning: “ . . . In the swastika the mission to struggle for the victory of the Aryan man and at the same time the victory of the idea of creative work, which is eternally anti-Semitic and will always be anti-Semitic.” (Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf.)

  9. A quote to think about . . . • “There are 35,000 survivors of the Holocaust alive today . . . There are 350,000 experts who just want to be useful with the remainder of their lives. Please listen to the words and the echoes and the ghosts. And please teach this in your schools.” (Steven Spielberg, Academy acceptance speech for Schindler’s List 1993).

  10. Final thoughts . . . • We can no longer pretend that history has not and will not repeat itself. • Our modern world has many conflicts of religious and cultural difference. The past is invaluable to both our ability and concern to protect future generations.

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