Holocaust Memorial Day Newspaper January 2020

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Visiting Auschwitz p9

Foundation Stones p4

Events p11

Liberation of Belsen p13

Holocaust Memorial Day The awareness raising newspaper written by young people for our local community

January 2020

“Stand Together!”

Survivors of the Holocaust and genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda speak to local school pupils at Hampton School recently

Welcome to our newspaper. Written by local young people, we hope that it will help raise awareness in our local community of the upcoming Holocaust Memorial Day. Inside you’ll read pieces written by students from local schools who are standing together to lead the forthcoming commemoration.

Researching a local connection to the Holocaust p10

Whilst a range of events is planned across our community in January, students have already been learning about the Holocaust and other genocides. More than a hundred students recently came together to hear the testimony of Zigi Shipper, a Holocaust survivor, Kemal Pervanic, who survived the genocide in Bosnia & Sophie Masereka, a survivor of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwan-

Reflecting through art, poetry and animation project p2-5

da. “It was troubling to hear the horrific experiences of Zigi, Kemal and Sophie...but it made me think that we all have to act to prevent events like the Holocaust from ever happening

again.” said Luke, a Year 9 who attended the event. Continued on p2-5

A Cambodia genocide survivor visits Turing House p7


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