Friends get active for Holocaust Memorial Day
'The power of words' is the theme of Holocaust Memorial Day 2018
The Holocaust Memorial Day HMD) Trust has identified ‘the power of words’ as a unifying theme for the 2018 remembrance of the millions killed in the Holocaust under Nazi persecution, and in the later genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
This week, all over Britain, Quakers are involved in a wide range of events to commemorate the day.
Bristol Quaker Marian Liebmann, of Redland Meeting, is chair of the HMD steering group, which has set up an inclusive programme designed to be relevant to people of different faiths and generations.
The Bristol event, at Bristol City Hall on 26 January from 1:30-5pm, will feature a civic commemoration as well as keynote speakers including Bristol West MP Thangham Debonnaire and Bettina Cohn, a 98-year-old Holocast survivor whose father’s bookshop was attacked in 1938. Both her parents died in the Holocaust.
Bath Friends are holding an HMD event on 27 January in their Meeting house with keynote speakers including Sarah Bevan, a councillor and human rights advocate; Iris Segall from the Bath Interfaith Group; and Bede Rowe, a local Catholic priest studying a PhD on Catholic-Jewish relations.
Iris Segall is Jewish and was born in Israel to parents who lived in Romania through the second world war and the Holocaust.
