26/01/2023
Friday 27 January is Holocaust Memorial Day.
Find out why this day is so important, and how to fight prejudice and discrimination.
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Holocaust Memorial Day.
Friday 27 January.
Find out why this day is so important, how to fight prejudice and discrimination.
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The Holocaust.
Between 1941 and 1945, six million Jews were murdered by the N***s during the Holocaust.
The N***s also murdered millions of others including Roma, Gypsy and Sinti people, people with disabilities, gay people, and many whose political views or religious beliefs threatened the N**i regime.
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Holocaust Memorial Day.
On 27 January 2000, the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest N**i death camp, 46 governments signed the Stockholm Declaration and founded Holocaust Memorial Day.
This day is to remember the millions murdered during the Holocaust, under N**i Persecution and in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and later Darfur.
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Light the Darkness.
On 27 January at 16:00, you are invited remember pause and reflect by placing a battery-operated tea light in your window to honour Holocaust victims and show you stand against prejudice and hatred today.
These candles are available
free from Mandela Reception and Drill Hall helpdesk.
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Etty Hillesum Exchange.
Friday 24 February, 19:00, Canterbury Cathedral Lodge.
An evening dedicated to the Dutch-Jewish writer Etty Hillesum (b.1914) who was murdered in 1943 by the N***s in Auschwitz.
With lectures from former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, and director of the Etty Hillesum Research Centre Klaas Smelik.
Find out more and book:
Etty.Eventbrite.co.uk
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Experienced hate or discrimination?
You can report incidents of assault, harassment, and hate via the REPORT + SUPPORT tool, with or without giving your name.
ReportAndSupport.kent.ac.uk
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