Friday, January 28, 2005
The Holocaust remembered
Yesterday I attended the borough's Holocaust memorial event at Graveney School .
There were excellent and moving performances by Klezmer Klub and South West Youth Theatre. Readings included "Anne from Amsterdam", "First they came", "Holocaust survivors tesimony", A Rwandan Genocide survivors testimony, "Mental Fight" by Ben Okri and much much more.
In addition to remembering the millions who were killed by Hitler's "final solution" and the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27th 1945, we also need to remember other victims of genocide.
Atrocities that have been perpetrated in the last 60 years include those of Cambodia and Rwanda, the genocidal massacre of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica, mass killings in Darfur, Kosovo, Chechnya.
We as individuals, as individual nations and as a family of nations need to focus our moral vision and rededicate our commitment to prevent current and future inhumanity, state brutality and crimes against humanity.
There were excellent and moving performances by Klezmer Klub and South West Youth Theatre. Readings included "Anne from Amsterdam", "First they came", "Holocaust survivors tesimony", A Rwandan Genocide survivors testimony, "Mental Fight" by Ben Okri and much much more.
In addition to remembering the millions who were killed by Hitler's "final solution" and the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27th 1945, we also need to remember other victims of genocide.
Atrocities that have been perpetrated in the last 60 years include those of Cambodia and Rwanda, the genocidal massacre of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica, mass killings in Darfur, Kosovo, Chechnya.
We as individuals, as individual nations and as a family of nations need to focus our moral vision and rededicate our commitment to prevent current and future inhumanity, state brutality and crimes against humanity.
