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Holocaust Memorial Day 2012

Speak Up Speak Out

The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2012 (27 January) is Speak Up, Speak Out. This theme asks us to think about the rights, responsibility and duty we all have to speak up when we see or hear something which we believe to be wrong.

We should all be challenged by the theme Speak Up, Speak Out and think about the consequences of what happens when we don’t speak up and out and what happens when we do use our voice.

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Events in 2012

Sunday 22 January 2012 - A multi-faith commemorative gathering at 2pm at Bruce Castle Museum, Lordship Lane, N17 8NU
Wednesday 25 January to Friday 10 February 2012 - an exhibition of art by Hungarian Holocaust survivor Moshe Galili at the European Commission, London, SW1. This exhibition features over 20 pieces of Moshe Galili's work and reminds us of the atrocities that took place during the Holocaust and why it is important to Speak Up and Speak Out.
- About the artist: Moshe was born Andor 'Bandi' Guttman on 15 March 1930 in Erdobenye a small village in the North Eastern region of Hungary near the Slovakian border. In 1948 Moshe arrived in Palestine to join a kibbutz and later that year fought in the army during the War of Independence in May 1948. After 2 year's military service Moshe moved to Jerusalem enrolling at the Belazel Art School. He was an early member of the artists' village at Ein Hod where he mostly worked in ceramics. His work from this time includes a relief for Haifa harbour to commemorate Jewish immigration.
  In 1958 Moshe moved to Paris where he enrolled in the Ecole des Beaux Arts and gained a distinction in etching. In 1962 he moved to London where he began painting the series of works that were to become known as the Holocaust and Humanity series that covers Moshe's personal experiences and recollections from Hungary through the Nazi period, March 1944 to February 1945. Moshe began this work as a way to counteract the rise in anti-Semitism and holocaust denial.
  Moving to London in 1962 Moshe made a living designing and making jewellery as well as stained glass windows for private commissions such as the Holocaust Survivors' Centre in Hendon and the Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre in Laxton.
  Moshe has held a number of exhibitions throughout London and in an International Conference for Holocaust Education was offered the chance to show some of his paintings in the Jewish Museum in Budapest, which is now housed in the very building that was the synagogue where Moshe had his bar mitzvah.
  Moshe believes that his work should serve as a warning to all to remain vigilant against discrimination, anti-Semitism and racism.

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Haringey Working Group

Haringey Council commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day by working with local councillors, Holocaust survivors, community religious representatives and council officers who form the Holocaust Memorial Day Working Group.

Since it was formed the Working Group has developed in partnership with Haringey Council a number of projects such as creating the Holocaust Memorial Garden of Remembrance, creating a sculpture for the garden and has brought the Anne Frank, Kindertransport and Janusz Korzak exhibitions to Haringey. In 2011 Bruce Castle Museum hosted an exhibition of paintings by Sylvia Olipitz Gaylor (Pergosh) of some local Holocaust survivors.

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