Friends remember the Holocaust

Quakers took part in Holocaust Memorial Day events

by Tara Craig 6th February 2015

Quakers across the country took part in Holocaust Memorial Day events on 27 January.

York Friends contributed to several local commemorations. Jenny Hartland of Acomb Meeting spoke at a civic event. Jenny’s talk was inspired by this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day theme, ‘Keeping the memory alive’. She talked about the deportation and murder of her grandparents and of The Stolpersteine Project, which places small brass blocks into pavements to commemorate those forced out of Germany to their deaths.