UNISON marks Holocaust Memorial Day on Tuesday 27 January with a reminder that the responsibility of remembrance does not end with the survivors
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Bridging generations this Holocaust Memorial Day
UNISON marks Holocaust Memorial Day on Tuesday 27 January with a reminder that the responsibility of remembrance does not end with the survivors
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Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
Today (27 January) is Holocaust Memorial Day and when people across the world gather to remember the 6 million Jewish people who were murdered in the Holocaust. The day also commemorate the millions more people murdered through the Nazi persecution, the communists, LGBT+ and disabled people as well as the millions more who were murdered […]
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Holocaust Memorial Day: for a better future
Each year UNISON marks Holocaust Memorial Day, which takes place on 27 January – the 2025 theme of the day is ‘For a Better Future’
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Holocaust Memorial Day: for a better future
Each year UNISON marks Holocaust Memorial Day, which takes place on 27 January – the 2025 theme of the day is ‘For a Better Future’
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Opinion: My life would have ended there
Marking 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz–Birkenau camp, UNISON member Paddy Toner recounts his experience on a tour of the site last year
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Opinion: My life would have ended there
Marking 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz–Birkenau camp, UNISON member Paddy Toner recounts his experience on a tour of the site last year
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A sister’s story
There was something in the air that day
It had been coming for weeks
As Jack went out that morning
Like every morning
Looking for work, looking for hope
The atmosphere felt heavy
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Remembering all those killed by the Nazis
This year, we reflect on the fragility of the rights of targeted and scapegoated people; how freedom can be eroded with violent rhetoric, demagoguery and conspiracist ideas
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Remembering all those killed by the Nazis
This year, we reflect on the fragility of the rights of targeted and scapegoated people; how freedom can be eroded with violent rhetoric, demagoguery and conspiracist ideas
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Blog: Remembering the ‘banality of evil’ is of vital importance
Two UNISON young members reflect on the significance of Holocaust Memorial Day
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Marking Holocaust Memorial Day
This year’s theme charges us to collectively challenge antisemitism, intolerance and the politics of division and hate
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Holocaust Memorial Day: Portraits of last remaining UK survivors unveiled
Check out this BBC report on the these powerful but poignant portraits of UK death camp survivors on display at the Queen’s Gallery to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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Mark this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day with a focus on ‘one day’
The Holocaust Memorial Trust has produced free guides and resources to help your UNISON branch organise events and activities
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Holocaust Memorial Day 2022 theme: #OneDay
One Day – 27 January – is a day that we put aside every year to come together to remember, to learn about the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution and the genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur, in the hope that there may be&n…Read more…
Holocaust Memorial Day 2021: Be the light in the darkness
This morning I attended Newham Council’s virtual event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. There was a very moving testimony by Holocaust survivors, Ann and Bob Kirk BEM. They described their separate childhood experiences of the pre war Nazi terror on Jew…Read more…
Blog: We all need to carry on being the light
In unprecedented times, the chance that Holocaust Memorial Day offers us, to reflect on past atrocities and current hatreds, is needed as much as ever
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What a start to the new decade!
In-sourcing, strike suspensions, maternity policy improvements and backing Keir Starmer for Labour leader – it’s been a busy month
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Holocaust Memorial Day: standing together
UNISON event honours the victims of genocides, as speakers stress the need to remember – and to fight to stop future genocides
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Holocaust Memorial Day: UNISON Renfrewshire remembers Jane Haining
Jane Haining was a Scottish woman from Paisley, who dedicated her life to helping Jewish orphans in Hungary
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