Over 700 tickets already booked for our in-person National #YomHaShoah Holocaust Commemoration. Have you booked your FREE ticket online yet? #RememberTogether on Sun 5th May, book now at yomhashoah.org.uk

#OnThisDay in 1945 Buchenwald Concentration Camp was liberated by American troops.

Between 1937 and 1945 approximately 250,000 people were imprisoned at Buchenwald, over 56,000 of whom were killed. #OTD

Such a beautiful & solemn place for the 30th anniversary commemorations to mark the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda 🇷🇼Rwanda in UK 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇲🇹 Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

This month marks 30 years since the genocide against the Tutsi in #Rwanda began.

30 years ago today the Interahamwe (civilian death squad) had set up roadblocks and were rounding up and killing Tutsi men, women and children.

Learn more about the genocide below.
#Kwibuka30 #OTD

'I was just 11 when he killed my dad’s younger sister, a woman with whom he shared five children.'

We're pleased to have facilitated this Metro article in which Antoinette Mutabazi, survivor of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, speaks of forgiveness and recovery on…

Today is #InternationalRomaniDay , an opportunity to celebrate Romani culture and raise awareness of the issues they face.

Europe’s #Roma and Sinti people were targeted by the Nazis for total destruction. They continue to face discrimination and prejudice across Europe today.

Thank you to BBC Woman's Hour for raising awareness of the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi in #Rwanda in this powerful interview with survivor, Victoria Uwonkunda.
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This month marks 30 years since the start of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Visit our website to learn about the situation in Rwanda before the genocide and the tensions and events that led up to the appalling loss of approximately 1 million lives.

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#OTD in 1992, the initial Siege of Mostar began. A dark period that would see the deaths of civilians, a cut off of humanitarian aid, damage or destruction of ten mosques, and the blowing up of the historic Stari Most bridge.

🕯️Learn about the resources from Holocaust Memorial Day Holocaust Memorial Day Trust at the STARME Festival of Learning on May 15th. Get practical advice and resources for how to embed this in your classroom. Get your tickets today at starmeorg.wordpress.com #STARMEfest2024

#OnThisDay in 1935, the Nazis issued an order to local authorities to close down the Watchtower Society – criminalising the Jehovah’s Witnesses who lived in Germany at that time. #OTD

Approximately 1,700 Jehovah’s Witnesses were murdered during the Nazi regime.

#HolocaustMemorialDay 2025 will mark 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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'I had to do something for another mother’s son.'

Louisa Gould hid a Russian prisoner of war who had been enslaved on the Nazi occupied Channel Islands.

She ultimately paid with her life. #WomensHistoryMonth

April will mark the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi in #Rwanda , when approximately 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered.

Despite its colossal scale this genocide was carried out almost entirely by hand, usually using machetes and clubs. #Kwibuka30

Sanela Saracevic escaped the Bosnian war in 1993, yet the memories of its atrocities continue to haunt her.

She has transformed her painful past into a source of inspiration, using it to nurture hope for a better future.

Read her life story for #WomensHistoryMonth .