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On January 27th 2025 Southampton will mark the UK’s national Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day (HMD) with a commemorative event organised by the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations (University of Southampton) on behalf of the city.
This event is free, and all are welcome to attend. The commemorative event will take place in the Sir James Matthews Building (Above Bar Street, Southampton) on Monday 27 January 2025 from 6pm to 8pm (door will be open at 5.30 pm).
Refreshments will be available before the event, and attendees will be able to tour the Parkes Institute’s newest exhibition and stalls featuring local community groups and anti-racism/refugee charities.
Event Programme
This year, Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day event falls on the 80th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest extermination camp in the genocide against the Jews of Europe during the Second World War. On behalf of the city, the University of Southampton is honoured to welcome Janine Webber, a survivor of the Lvov Ghetto, to give her testimony to attendees in conversation with Anoushka Alexander-Rose.
Mazzy Westwood, a former student of the Department of History at the University of Southampton, will offer a reading from Vesna Maric’s Bluebird, a powerful memoir of the author’s experiences as a refugee from the Bosnian War (1992-1995)
There will also be reflections from students from a local Sixth Form College on their participation in the Holocaust Educational Trust’s (HET) Lessons from Auschwitz programme and will discuss their experience of visiting the site.
Registration
Attendance is free, and all members of the public are welcome. Attendants must register in advance and must also bring a form of ID on the day.
For details of the wider programme of events marking Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day please see the separate announcements on the Parkes Institute’s Eventbrite and social media pages:
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Event information
Please note that this event is in-person and online. Registrants for online participation will be provided with a live stream link. Online registrants will be able to listen to the event but not participate in questions.
If you have any questions about this event please contact parkes@soton.ac.uk
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