International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust

On the 27th of January it is the 2012 observance of the ‘International Day of Commemoration in memory of Victims of the holocaust’

The theme this year will focus on ‘Children and the Holocaust’

“The United Nations will remember the one-and-a-half million Jewish children who perished in the Holocaust, together with the thousands of Roma and Sinti children, the disabled and others, who suffered and died at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators. Some children managed to survive in hiding, others fled to safe havens before it was too late, while many others suffered medical experiments or were sent to the gas chambers immediately upon arriving at the death camps. Highlighting the impact of mass violence on children, this theme has important implications for the 21st century. ” (http://www.un.org/en/holocaustremembrance/2012/calendar2012.html)

From our collection: ‘Did the children cry? : Hitler’s war against Jewish and Polish children, 1939-1945′  by Richard C. Lukas

‘The hidden children : the secret survivors of the Holocaust’  by Jane Marks

 ‘Children of the Holocaust : conversations with sons and daughters of survivors’  by Helen Epstein.

Image: UN website

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