Category: ACERT

Holocaust Memorial Day 2017 resources

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Holocaust Memorial Day 2017

Friday, 27 January, 2017
How can life go on? 
The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2017 asks audiences to think about what happens after genocide and of our own responsibilities in the wake of such a crime.

Resources include Roma life stories:

  1. Ceija Stojka (Chaya Stoyka)
  2. The Bock family
  3. Johann ‘Rukeli’ Trollmann
  4. Settela Steinbach
  5. Amalie Schaich
  6. Otto Rosenberg (also available as Easy Read version)

For educators Holocaust Memorial Day Trust hmd.org.uk/content/for-educators. If you have any questions about our education resources please email education@hmd.org.uk or call 020 7785 7029.

Identity Conference report

The 2016 ACERT conference Identity Now more than achieved its objective of providing an opportunity to reflect on the meaning and importance of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller identities in a range of contexts. Around 50 participants, most from community backgrounds, presented and discussed different aspects of identity and the challenges they experienced asserting and defending it. Continue reading “Identity Conference report”