On 27 January, 140 people crowded into St Mary’s Guild Hall to hear the powerful voices of those that have witnessed the horrors and atrocities of the Holocaust and Holodomor. People gathered in the hall accompanied by music performed by … Continue reading →
Between 1929 and 1932 the Soviet Communist Party, on Stalin’s orders, dispossessed and deported millions of peasant families, called “dekulakisation”, and abolished private property in land and the concentrated the remaining peasantry in “collective” farms under Party control. There followed … Continue reading →
The Holocaust was the genocide of the European Jews between 1941 and 1945. Across German-occupied Europe, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews, around two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population. For more background information see the Wikipedia … Continue reading →
The detailed programme of the event show below featuring distinguished world leaders, holocaust survivors, music and discussion is available here.
Continue reading →David Fish, Secretary of the Lord Mayor’s Peace Committee for Peace and Reconciliation writes: On 28 January, ten members of the Committee joined 200 other people in a temporary civic hall in Broadgate for Coventry’s Holocaust Memorial Day. We heard Coventry Lord … Continue reading →