In 1939 we had a murderous dictatorship massing troops near the boarder of a independant sovereign country, Poland, which it wanted to take over and rule. In order to try and justify an invasion, Nazi Germany, carried out a secret raid on one of its ow…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…
UNISON marks Holocaust Memorial Day
Victims of the Nazi regime and modern genocides remembered
The article UNISON marks Holocaust Memorial Day first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Black History Month – Noorunissa Inayat Khan – Wartime British Secret Agent Murdered by the Nazi
Before she joined the SOE as a secret agent and was sent to occupied France, she worked with the mother of one of my branch UNISON stewards in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force as a Battle of Britain wireless operator
Never forget.
This brave woma…Read more…
UNISON London Regional Council: Speakers on Camden Parking Strike; Rise of the New Far Right & Legal measures to fight mental health discrimination at work
I was little late turning up to the Greater London UNISON Regional Council on Thursday, so missed the guest speakers from Camden UNISON on their dispute with Parking Contractors NSL on poverty pay (see UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis, on th…Read more…
Holocaust Survivor Mala Tribich MBE
I attended the Newham Holocaust Memorial Day 2018. Concentration camp survivor Mala Tribich, who lost her mother, father and sister gave a compelling account of Nazi murder, inhumanity and cruelty.
This is what happens if you do not stand up for…Read more…
Muslim, Hindu & Sikh Spitfire Pilots defended Britain from the Nazis..It’s their Poppy too!
100% agree. As well as the West Indian, Africans, South Asian and other Empire and Commonwealth heroes who saved us from German conquest in the First and also the Second World War. Read more…
Holocaust Memorial Day – Newham 2017
On Friday I attended a very moving event to mark “Holocaust Memorial Day” which remembers the attempt by German Nazi to murder all Jews in Europe and all subsequent holocausts in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur and now Syria.
The wonderful guest spea…Read more…
Holocaust Memorial Day – Old Town Hall, Stratford
Yesterday I went to a Holocaust Memorial Day, ceremony organised by Newham Council which took place in the Old Town Hall in Stratford, E15.
The hall was packed with residents and pupils from local schools.
It began with a choir singing a sp…Read more…