Events will be taking place all over London and the rest of the
country to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27.
Communities across the capital will be remembering those whose
lives were destroyed during the Holocaust under Nazi persecution
and in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and
Darfur. Events range from lectures and discussions to film
screenings and reflective services. Talks include those at UCL
and Imperial, as well as a special performance from Diane
Samuels, who was rescued as a child from Nazi Europe at the
Jewish Museum. The British Library are hosting an event to raise
awareness of the marginalisation of faith, LGBT and BME
communities and Kings College are holding a commemorative event
on January 24th at 6.30pm. The day will also be observed with a
number of film screenings including ‘Messanger from Poland’, a
film by Jan Karski who infultrated the Warsaw ghetto and a
German concentration camp to carry the first eyewitness accounts
to the West, at the Imperial War Mu