University to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day

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Swansea University’s Equal Opportunities team will becommemorating Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) for the first time this year, pledging to remember the victims of the Holocaust and later genocides.

Date: Tuesday 27th January

Time: 10 am until 2pm

Venue: Fulton House, Swansea University

The Equal Opportunities team will be setting up a stall with free information about HMD, a donation box for the HMD Trust and free refreshments . 

Holocaust Memorial Day takes place on 27 January each year, where the millions of people who have been murdered or whose lives have been changed beyond recognition during the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution and in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur are remembered.

On HMD the survivors of these regimes are honoured and the lessons of their experience are used to inform our lives today.