27th January 2010 is Holocaust Memorial Day and the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust is challenging everyone across the UK to become part of a Legacy of Hope (this year’s theme) and offer an opportunity to listen to the voices from the persecution, and to make the lessons of hope for a safer, inclusive society where the differences between us are respected a reality today and in the future.
Our responsibility is to remember those who were persecuted and murdered, because their lives were wasted. and the challenge is to make the experience and words of the victims and survivors of the Holocaust and subsequent genocides such as those in Rwanda and Darfur a meaningful part of our future.
And as students, we ought to ask ourselves what we should be doing today to build a safer, stronger society so that the risk of the building blocks of genocide ever being laid is removed.
On Tuesday 26 January, 2010 the Guild will hosting a holocaust survivor and having a memorial in the Guild and it is a great oppurtunity to get involved, to listen, reflect and look inwards into ourselves; identify the agency of our existence and get inspired by the great spirit of resilience in the face of hatred and great suffering that still plagues many lives around the world today!
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