Today marks the annual worldwide Holocaust Memorial Day
- Holocaust Memorial Day 2024
- Huddersfield Town highlight Holocaust Centre North
- 2024 event focuses on ‘fragility of freedom’
Huddersfield Town today joins the world in remembering the Holocaust on Holocaust Memorial Day, also taking the opportunity to highlight our local Holocaust Centre North at Huddersfield University.
Organised by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, you can find out more about the day and the Trust by CLICKING HERE to visit their website.
The Trust exists to “encourage remembrance in a world scarred by genocide.”
They promote and support Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) – the international day on 27 January to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of people murdered under Nazi persecution of other groups and during more recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
27 January marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. They say:
“Holocaust Memorial Day is for everyone. Each year across the UK, thousands of people come together to learn more about the past and take action to create a safer future. We know they learn more, empathise more and do more.”
Holocaust Centre North is a permanent exhibition at Huddersfield University, hosting a growing and living archive of documentary evidence of the Holocaust. You can find out more about the centre by CLICKING HERE.
Having been visited by staff of Huddersfield Town, the Holocaust Centre North seeks to raise awareness of human rights, freedom and equality by exploring one of the darkest chapters in contemporary history. They are dedicated to telling a global history through local stories by collecting, preserving and displaying the documentary evidence and testimony of survivors and refugees who built new lives as members of northern communities after the Holocaust.
Find out more about our commitment as a Club to equality, diversity and inclusion by visiting our Terriers Together HERE.
