Holocaust Memorial Day 2015: Keep the memory alive

Holocaust Memorial Day 2015: Keep the memory alive

Every year, 27 January marks Holocaust Memorial Day. In 2015 this day commemorates the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau, the 20th anniversary of the Bosnian Genocide and the 21st anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide. On and around this date people from all over the world come together to remember the destruction and devastation caused by the Holocaust, genocides and persecutions on a worldwide scale. York s Holocaust Memorial Day programme follows the theme KEEP THE MEMORY ALIVE, engaging with partners both inside and outside of the city to create a programme of varied events that commemorate the past, explore the present and consider the implications both have for our own futures. The vision for 2015 is to remember, enabling survivors, to be at the heart of HMD, as we will share their life stories and memories of their experiences HMD TRUST Not only do we collectively share an obligation to remember the events of the past but to remember the individuals who were victims to the worldwide atrocities. Unless stated in individual listings all events are physically accessible. Please contact each venue for specific information.

This year we invite you help keep the memory alive, to remember and to contribute in supporting York as being an understanding and accepting community for all. We hope you can join us and look forward to seeing you at these events. PH1: Artists in Place, including I Was There by Iby Knill Friday 16 January Saturday 21 February 2015 Exhibition of contemporary art by John Newling, Delaine and Damian Le Bas, Stevie Ronnie and Catherine Sutcliffe-Fuller during their interventions within the city as PH1 Artists in Residence. Also featuring a film by Jackson & Teed of Iby Knill reading her poem I Was There. New School House Gallery, Peasholme Green, York, YO1 7PW 01904 653603 mail@schoolhousegallery.co.uk For more information and an up to date list of events go to www.yorkfestivals.com

Jewish Heritage Trail Sunday 25 and Wednesday 28 January 2015, 10.30am Tickets 6 adults, 5 (YorkCard, Students, YHA, Disabled) A walk recalling the Jewish contribution to York s history, visiting sites connected with mediaeval and modern Jews. The tour ends at the site of the dreadful massacre of the Jews at Clifford s tower, where the walk ends. Starting at Museum Garden Gates, Museum Street, YO1 7FR This is an outdoor event, so wrap up warm. 01904 622303 Email: info@yorkwalk.co.uk www.yorkwalk.co.uk Patrick Woodhouse - Etty Hillesum: A Life Transformed A Journey, in the Darkest of Times, from Chaos to Beauty Sunday 25 January, 12.30pm Seminar by Patrick Woodhouse - Etty Hillesum was a young Jewish woman, born in Holland in 1914 and murdered in Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of twenty-nine. Her letters and diaries, kept between 1941 and 1943, were published in 1981, and translated into English in 1983. The Old Palace, Deans Park, York Minster, York, YO1 7JN 01904 557208 boxoffice@yorkminster.org www.yorkminster.org For more information and an up to date list of events go to www.yorkfestivals.com

Understanding Clifford s Tower Sunday 25 January, 2pm FreeTour at Clifford s Tower, 3pm 6pm History & Archaeology talks and tea (free for all participants) Heritage tour and talks to discover the significance of Clifford s Tower to York and the meaning to the Jewish Community. Free tour led by Professor Helen Weinstein, (Director of Historyworks), John Oxley (City of York Council, City Archaeologist), Jeremy Ashbee (Head Historic Properties Curator, English Heritage). The tour will be followed by a panel of expert speakers from archaeology and history and ending with tea and conversation. For more information and to sign-up for the event please go to: http://historyworks.tv/projects historyworkstv@gmail.com 2pm start at Clifford s Tower Steps. (Please Note: There are steep steps at Clifford s Tower which could cause access issues.) If the weather is very bad you will be guided to the indoor venue. 3pm-6pm afternoon talks and tea in the City of York Suite in the Hilton Hotel York, 1 Tower St, York YO1 9WD Clifford s Tower Commemoration Sunday 25 January, 6.15pm A moving, shared remembrance of the massacre of the Jewish people in York at Clifford s Tower in 1190 through a simple candlelit ceremony of readings and prayer. Meet at Clifford s Tower Steps. This is an outdoor event so wrap up warm. 01904 554660 lauren.frost@york.gov.uk

Holocaust Memorial Day Civic Event Sunday 25 January, 7.30pm 8.45pm An evening to embrace the theme Keep the Memory Alive, remembering and reflecting on the events of the past and the individuals who were affected by them. Featuring live Klezmer music, a speaker on remembering her grandparents who died in the holocaust and one from the Applied Centre for Human Rights. The event will include light refreshments and the opportunity share our own reflections. Booking required: www.yorkhmdcivic.eventbrite.co.uk George Hudson Room, West Offices, Station Rise, York, YO1 6GA 01904 554660 lauren.frost@york.gov.uk Anne Frank: A History for Today Exhibition Tuesday 27th January - Sunday 1st February Anne Frank: A History for Today presents the story of Anne Frank and her family alongside the wider picture across Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. Part of York Minster s Mission is to put learning at the heart of all we do. Through this narrative, the exhibition challenges its audience to find the contemporary relevance of the Holocaust, allowing people to see how racial intolerance and hatred can begin, and the steps we can take to stop this from happening in the future. York Minster, York, YO1 7JN 01904 557208 boxoffice@yorkminster.org www.yorkminster.org Normal admissions to York Minster apply. York Residents: Entrance to the Minster is free with a valid York Card.

Understanding the Pogrom of 1190 Tuesday 27 January, 2pm Free Tour at Clifford s Tower, 3pm-5pm History & Archaeology talks and tea (free for all participants) Heritage tour & talks to uncover the history of death and burial, protest and punishment in and around Clifford s Tower. Free tour led by Professor Helen Weinstein, (Director of Historyworks), John Oxley (City of York Council, City Archaeologist), Jeremy Ashbee (Head Historic Properties Curator, English Heritage). The tour will be followed by a panel of expert speakers from archaeology and history and ending with tea and conversation. For more information and to sign-up for the event please go to: http://historyworks.tv/projects historyworkstv@gmail.com 2pm start at Clifford s Tower Steps. (Please Note: There are steep steps at Clifford s Tower which could cause access issues.) If the weather is very bad you will be guided to the indoor venue. 3pm to 5pm afternoon talks and tea in the City of York Suite in the Hilton Hotel York, 1 Tower St, York YO1 9WD 600 Candles Tuesday 27 January, 6.00pm 7.30pm Evensong 5.15pm / Candle Lighting 6.00pm 7.30pm A public lighting of 600 candles in York Minster s Chapter House to commemorate the six million who died in the Holocaust. The event will follow Choral Evensong in the Quire, to which all are invited. This will be followed by a procession to the Chapter House, where there will be light, music, readings, silence and space for quiet reflection. Chapter House, York Minster, York, YO1 7JN 01904 557208 boxoffice@yorkminster.org www.yorkminster.org

Film Screening: Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008) (12A) Wednesday 28 January, 6.15pm Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences. The film will be followed by a public conversation between the director, Mark Herman and York Minster s Canon Chancellor, Chris Collingwood. Admission charges apply City Screen Picturehouse, 13-17 Coney Street, York YO1 9QL Booking info: Box office 0871 902 5726 www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/york_picturehouse Theatre in the Theresienstadt Ghetto: Newly Discovered Works Thursday 29 January, 7.30 pm Students from the University of York commemorate the Holocaust by presenting newly discovered songs, scenes and a one-act play, The Smoke of Home, all authored by prisoners in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, recently published in the anthology Performing Captivity, Performing Escape (ed. Lisa Peschel). Upstage Centre Youth Theatre, 41-43 Monkgate, YO31 7PB 01904 674675 paul.tyack@york.ac.uk

Film Screening: Free Men (Les Hommes Libres) (2011) (12A) Friday 31 January, 8:00pm (doors open at 7:30pm) Set in Nazi occupied Paris and inspired by true events, Free Men is a French film from 2011. The film stars Tahir Rahim (A Prophet) as a young Algerian whose developing friendship with a Jewish man and involvement with the Paris Mosque forces him to confront increasingly difficult moral dilemmas. South Bank Community Cinema, Clements Hall, Nunthorpe Road YO23 1BW Tickets: 4 non-members, 3 members 07963 704034 info@sbcommunitycinema.co.uk www.sbcommunitycinema.co.uk SBankComCinema Too hard to imagine: Final Curtain Drama Group Sunday 8 February, 7.00pm Devised piece of theatre looking through young peoples eyes, at some of the issues surrounding the Holocaust.eg What would you take if you were only allowed 1 suitcase?, What games would you play if you had nothing to play with?, Could you stay quiet long enough to hide? Lesley Schatzberger will also be talking about her experiences and that of her parents escaping Nazi Germany. Clements Hall, Nunthorpe Road YO23 1BW Tickets: 4 on the door 07796186812 Sally.McIlveen@ntlworld.com For more information and an up to date list of events go to www.yorkfestivals.com

Education Projects SACRE: York s Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education is funding and supporting an educational programme for schools within York primary and secondary schools. SACREs advise local education authorities on RE teaching and collective worship and York s SACRE also seeks to contribute towards social cohesion by improving religious and racial harmony within the community. 01904 553 025 or sacre@york.gov.uk Watch out for York Human Rights City Project A project that aspires to promote a community where institutions, organisations and individuals debate, learn, embrace and apply human rights principles to their daily lives. For further information www.yhrcproject.co.uk York City of Sanctuary City of Sanctuary is a movement to build a culture of hospitality for people seeking sanctuary in the UK by gathering pledges of support from all sectors of society. York is seeking recognition as a place of safety and welcome by officially receiving the status as a City of Sanctuary. Pledges of support are being sought from across York to achieve this ambition. For further information www.cityofsanctuary.org/york

The Holocaust Memorial Day Programme 2015: at a glance PH1: Artists in Place, including I Was There by Iby Knill Friday 16 January Saturday 21 February 2015 New School House Gallery Jewish Heritage Trail Sunday 25 and Wednesday 28 January Museum Gardens, 10.30am Patrick Woodhouse - Etty Hillesum: A Life Transformed A Journey, in the Darkest of Times, from Chaos to Beauty Sunday 25 January The Old Palace, Deans Park - 12.30pm Understanding Clifford s Tower Sunday 25 January - Clifford s Tower 2.00pm/ Hilton Hotel 3.00pm Clifford s Tower Commemoration Sunday 25 January Clifford s Tower, 6.15pm Holocaust Memorial Day Civic Event Sunday 25 January West Offices, 7.30pm Anne Frank: A History for Today Exhibition Tuesday 27th January - Sunday 1st February 2015 York Minster Understanding the Pogrom of 1190 Tuesday 27 January - Clifford s Tower 2.00pm/ Hilton Hotel 3.00pm 600 Candles Tuesday 27 January York Minster, Candle Lighting 6.00pm Film Screening: Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Wednesday 28 January City Screen, 6.15pm Theatre in the Theresienstadt Ghetto: Newly Discovered Works Thursday 29 January, 7.30 pm Upstage Centre Youth Theatre Film Screening: Free Men (Les Hommes Libres) Friday 31 January, South Bank Community Cinema, 7.30pm Too hard to imagine: Final Curtain Drama Group Sunday 8 February, Clement s Hall, 7.00pm

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