Holocaust Memorial Day: 27 January 2022

As part of the University community's commitment to challenging persecution based on race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or disability, please take a moment to reflect on Holocaust Memorial Day on Thursday 27 January. Below are some thoughts from representatives of the Jewish Student Society. 

The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2022 is One Day. There are many ways to interpret the theme: 

Holocaust Memorial Day is One Day – 27 January – that we put aside to come together to remember, to learn about the Holocaust, Nazi persecution and the genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur, in the hope that there may be One Day in the future with no genocide. We learn more about the past, we empathise with others today, and we take action for a better future.  

Holocaust Memorial Day is held annually on 27 January, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest Nazi death camp. It commemorates the six million Jews that were murdered in the Holocaust, in addition to the millions of people killed in the Nazi persecutions of gay people, those with disabilities and all other groups that threatened their ideal of a ‘pure Aryan race’. It is also remembers victims of genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur and elsewhere.  

Please see this #DiverseReading post to find out more, or visit hmd.org.uk.