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Extra funding committed to support Holocaust Memorial Day

The 바카라 사이트 has announced additional funding to support Holocaust Memorial Day 2025.

  • The 바카라 사이트 has announced additional funding to support Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
  • 2025 will mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, with many Holocaust survivors expected to attend the national ceremony
  • Funding reflects the 바카라 사이트바카라 사이트s aim that the national commemorations should be seen by an audience of millions

The 바카라 사이트 has announced additional funding for the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust to support the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Holocaust Memorial Day, marked each year on January 27th, is a day of reflection, remembrance, and education.

2025 will mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, which will be a particularly poignant occasion, highlighting the significance of remembering the atrocities of the past while fostering a future of understanding and unity.

Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 also marks the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica, sending a strong reminder that hatred and intolerance have continued long after the Holocaust.

Faith Minister Lord Khan said:

We are absolutely committed to ensuring the lessons of the Holocaust are never forgotten. The 80th anniversary is a time for deep reflection, and to remember the six million Jewish men, women and children murdered by the Nazis.

This funding will enable the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust to stage an event and ensure it is broadcast to millions 바카라 사이트 matching the significance of the moment. It will enable communities across the country to take part in this moment for reflection 바카라 사이트 and to hear directly from survivors who can bear witness to the appalling crimes committed by the Nazis.

The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust바카라 사이트s Chief Executive, Olivia Marks-Woldman, said:

We are delighted that the 바카라 사이트바카라 사이트s commitment to Holocaust Memorial Day Trust means that we can reach even further in this significant year. The Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 commemorations will be engaging millions of people across the UK, in local communities, on social and traditional media, and at the UK Ceremony.

Please join us in January to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Bosnia - to learn from the past, for a better future.

The additional funds will help facilitate broadcasting the event, broadening access to people across the country for commemoration and reflection.

Last month, in his speech to the Holocaust Education Trust, the Prime Minister set out a new 바카라 사이트national ambition바카라 사이트 to ensure that every young person has the opportunity to hear recorded Holocaust survivor testimony.

Ahead of its curriculum review, the 바카라 사이트 has also committed to ensure that the Holocaust remains on the curriculum and that state schools which are not currently required to follow the national curriculum also teach the Holocaust.

Notes to editors:

  • The additional funding of £80,000 is in addition to an annual grant of £900,000 given to HMDT 바카라 사이트 totalling £980,000 this year 바카라 사이트 which is provided for the annual ceremony and for support for thousands of local activities up and down the country to remember the Holocaust and subsequent genocides.

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Published 13 October 2024