Home Page >
Leisure and Libraries >
Leisure and Culture >
Things to do >
Organise events and festivals in Redbridge >
Holocaust Memorial Day
Home
Holocaust Memorial Day
| Please watch this page
for future details of next year’s HMD in January 2013 |
The 2012 Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) service was held on
Friday, 27 January at 11am and the 2012 theme was “Speak Up, Speak
Out”.
For more information contact John Ward at john.ward@redbridge.gov.uk
Redbridge has a dedicated Holocaust Memorial Garden in
Valentines Park, Ilford, where a service is held each year to mark
the day with local faith groups, Council Officers and people from
all the diverse communities across Redbridge.
Holocaust Memorial Day is an opportunity to forge links across
ALL the diverse strands of local community lives, to build
understanding and unite in a common cause.
Each year Holocaust Memorial Day focuses on a specific theme,
which aims to encourage debate and .jpg "Holocaust memorial 2010 (195)")
awareness around particular aspects of the Holocaust and
genocide.
The Holocaust provides an example of the consequences for a
society, which excluded others based on difference.
Each theme highlights the experiences of a variety of groups
under the Nazis and also explores the opportunities for creating a
society based on respect for and celebration of, rather than fear
of, difference.
Redbridge news
Find out about things that are happening in the borough.
