feature: Remembering the Holocaust
12 December 2007
Holocaust Memorial Day is commemorated annually, in Haringey and across the world, on 27 January, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
It is a day of events remembering the horrors of the Holocaust during World War II, when six million Jews, and others, were systematically murdered by the Nazi regime in Germany, and more recent genocides.
- Click here for details of Holocaust Memorial Day events taking place in Haringey this year.
Council leader Cllr George Meehan said:
“I’m proud that in Haringey we play our part in marking this important day, when all our communities can come together to remember the past and resolve to do all we can to prevent such atrocities happening again.”
The council will again be marking Holocaust Memorial Day with a multifaith commemorative event at Bruce Castle Museum on 27 January.
The museum will also be hosting a display of designs submitted for a new sculpture in the Holocaust memorial garden in Bruce Castle Park.
Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen will be guest performer at a special children’s event on 24 January, and Wood Green library will host an exhibition remembering the “Kindertransport” scheme, where unaccompanied Jewish children were helped to escape from Germany to Britain in the final months before the outbreak of war in 1939. The exhibition runs from 14 January to 24 February.
Peter was one of some 10,000 unaccompanied children helped to escape after the British government agreed to admit a limited number of refugee children, provided each posted a £50 bond. He later changed his name to Morgan, and lived in Muswell Hill with his wife Gloria for many years. The children’s escape began by train to Holland. It was a humiliating and frightening journey; parents were often not allowed to say a public goodbye, and the children’s luggage was rifled by Nazi guards looking for valuables. From Holland the children were put on ferries to England, where they were met by volunteers in the Refugee Children’s Movement and resettled with foster families or orphanages around the country. Most never saw their parents again. Of the children who stayed in Europe after 1939, more than a million were murdered immediately by the Nazis or deported to camps and killed or died there. In total, 1.5 million children were murdered during the Holocaust. |
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Please contact Ursula Stone on 020 8489 2585, equalities@haringey.gov.uk. For general information see the Holocaust Memorial Day trust website (external link).
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