General Chat

Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January) is a national event in the United Kingdom dedicated to the remembrance of the victims of The Holocaust. It was first held in January 2001 and has been on the same date every year since. The chosen date is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp by the Soviet Union in 1945, the date also chosen for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and some other national Holocaust Memorial Days.

It's so important that this memorial day is kept as a reminder to everyone of the horrors of the past and to try and show young people especially that life should mean peace amongst all.

Some elderly people who have survived the horror are talking to schools to let them know what happened, their suffering will not be in vain if they can tell others to care.

Lizx

I certainly won't forget this day, my dad died on this day last year.

Folkestone holds a memorial event each year.
Young people from many schools will gather for an afternoon of sharing work they have been doing on the Holocaust theme.

Has anyone seen the film about children in a Tennesee school collecting paperclips, in an effort to understand the enormity of what happened?
It was on TV a year or so ago, ..Very moving.

Gwyn

...And yet we ignore what is happening in the middle east and has been since 1948.
Thank the gods you're not Palestinian.

Thank you for posting this Liz :))

It is a day I will never forget also.

My dear mum died 12 years ago today before the first Holocaust Memorial day, she would have been glad that it was the same day lol .

She was 19 at the start of the war and for as long as I knew her believed passionately that the Holocaust should never be forgotten, and that all the 'seemingly' small acts which led up to it should be remembered and act as a warning against bigotry and intolerance of anyone , based on their race, creed, colour, sexuality or physical or mental disabilty.

I have every sympathy with the victims of Holocaust, which is why I fail to understand the attitude of Israelis to the palestinians. They of all people should be advocating peace, but it is the Fanatical ones on both sides that are the problem, I think.

Hugs for you Rose, and you too,SplashofColour.

I watched the Nicholas Winton programme last evening, o.h. actually stayed awake through most of it, he is so unaware of the good people tried to do to help others.

What a shame people cannot live together in peace and harmony, greed and power are awful things to worship.

Lizx

I watched the Winton programme too. The world should not be allowed to forget. The awful thing is that especially in Africa, in my lifetime, similar events have taken and are taking place.

Chris, there are too many dreadful things happening still, even in today's so called modern age. Until all parents worldwide encourage their children to care about others and stop being greedy, things won't change, there will always be those who have too much and those who have too little and the governments don't do the right things to improve the situation.

Lizx

Dear Purple and all

Hello

Hope you are keeping well.

To remember always.

With deep respect.

Take gentle care
Very sincere wishes
xx

8PM
Thursday's programme has just started again on 5,

Thanks Gwyn, hope people spotted it and watched or recorded it. Wasn't it lovely when Nicholas W. found himself sitting next to all those people he had helped save.

Lizx

I am glad that people have posted that they watched the programme about Nicholas Winton. He has been nominated for the second time for the Nobel Peace Prize.

I like in particular this site
http://www.powerofgood.net/story.php

and the book Nicholas Winton and the Rescued Generation