https://padlet.com/40002287/h0igb1qt7rij1i6l "Be the light in the darkness" en-us 2021-01-22 15:46:35 UTC 2024-10-17 21:15:15 UTC hello@padlet.com 40002287 https://padlet.com/40002287/h0igb1qt7rij1i6l/wish/1114581432 The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2021 is Be the light in the darkness. It encourages everyone to reflect on the depths humanity can sink to, but also the ways individuals and communities resisted that darkness to ‘be the light’ before, during and after genocide. The chosen date is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp by the Soviet Union in 1945.]]> 2021-01-22 15:51:13 UTC https://padlet.com/40002287/h0igb1qt7rij1i6l/wish/1114581432 40002287 https://padlet.com/40002287/h0igb1qt7rij1i6l/wish/1114593288 We can all stand in solidarity. We can choose to be the light in the darkness in a variety of ways and places – at home, in public, and online.]]> 2021-01-22 15:53:42 UTC https://padlet.com/40002287/h0igb1qt7rij1i6l/wish/1114593288 40002287 https://padlet.com/40002287/h0igb1qt7rij1i6l/wish/1114597600 Here is the official website]]> 2021-01-22 15:54:33 UTC https://padlet.com/40002287/h0igb1qt7rij1i6l/wish/1114597600 40002287 https://padlet.com/40002287/h0igb1qt7rij1i6l/wish/1114608511 "First they came" by Pastor Martin Niemoller]]> 2021-01-22 15:56:41 UTC https://padlet.com/40002287/h0igb1qt7rij1i6l/wish/1114608511 40002287 https://padlet.com/40002287/h0igb1qt7rij1i6l/wish/1114619187 I myself have read this book and believe everyone should read it. It was so real and raw that it bought me to tears more than once. Markus Zusak truly brought the horrors to life. The book was inspired by Markus Zusak's German parents and two very real events that they experienced.]]> 2021-01-22 15:58:50 UTC https://padlet.com/40002287/h0igb1qt7rij1i6l/wish/1114619187 40002287 https://padlet.com/40002287/h0igb1qt7rij1i6l/wish/1114645867 Perhaps the most significant and inspiring reason why recalling the Holocaust is so important is the personal accounts of this time. As many people know, the most well-known story is the life of Anne Frank, whose diary of events became world-famous.]]> 2021-01-22 16:04:30 UTC https://padlet.com/40002287/h0igb1qt7rij1i6l/wish/1114645867 40002287 https://padlet.com/40002287/h0igb1qt7rij1i6l/wish/1114747379 In August 1945, 300 traumatised Jewish children, survivors of Nazi concentration camps, were brought to the Lake District where they were helped to begin new lives.
This aired on television last year for HMD and I remember watching it and feeling so lucky that I was born in 2004 and not in the period 1930-1945 . Again this story is one of millions and was extremely moving and gut wrenching. The film fills you with a sense of hope that these children will find a way out of the darkness that they were made to live through for so long.
The film is worth watching just for the last scene alone, you are introduced to the real Windemere children and what they did with their lives after the horrors they endured. ]]> 2021-01-22 16:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/40002287/h0igb1qt7rij1i6l/wish/1114747379 40002287 https://padlet.com/40002287/h0igb1qt7rij1i6l/wish/1114847331 Faces of Auschwitz-“Faces of Auschwitz” is a collaboration between the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, a Brazilian photo colorization specialist Marina Amaral, and a dedicated team of academics, journalists and volunteers. The goal of the project is to honour the memory and lives of Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoners by colorizing registration photographs culled from the museum’s archive and sharing individual stories of those whose faces were photographed.]]> 2021-01-22 16:45:20 UTC https://padlet.com/40002287/h0igb1qt7rij1i6l/wish/1114847331