Special event for Holocaust Memorial Day in Aberdeen. Lest we forget.

Aberdeen Holocaust Memorial Day Committee, has organised a special event aimed at ensuring the memory of the Holocaust and other genocides are kept alive and that lessons are learned for today and for future generations.

The event will be held on Monday 27th January from 12 until 1pm in Aberdeen Art Gallery, Cowdray Hall and Memorial Hall, Schoolhill Aberdeen AB10 1FQ. There will be a minute’s silence at 12:30 in the Memorial Hall.

The event will hear from school children who have visited concentration camps, and from individuals who have been personally affected by genocide.

We will join together in solidarity, standing together in silence to reflect on those who have been lost. The event will also mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and the 25th anniversary of the genocide in Bosnia.

The event will be BSL signed.

All ATUC delegates and affiliates are urged to attend if you can.

Holocaust Memorial Day 2019 - Lest we forget

The Holocaust Memorial Day 2019, hosted by the Belmont Cinema, will be held on Sunday 27th January at the Belmont Cinema from 12 noon.  

There will be music on arrival, followed by speakers and reflections, and then the film 1945 at 1pm. 

The event is free but a ticket is required for the film, available at https://www.belmontfilmhouse.com/showing/1945 or by phoning 01224 343500.  

What is Holocaust Memorial Day and why must we never forget?

Holocaust Memorial Day takes place on 27 January each year. It’s a time for everyone to pause to remember 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 places like Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

ATUC 150th Anniversary Year Diary - See what we did in our 150th year

WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT OUR 150th ANNIVERSARY YEAR DIARY

• January 24 - Film "Belonging" at Belmont Cinema
• January 28 - Sunday - Holocaust Memorial Day, Castlegate
• March 3 - Protest Conservative Conference, AECC 0800 hours - 1730 hours
• March 7 - STUC Event - Aberdeen City Council's Civic Reception to launch our 150th anniversary celebrations
• March 8 - International Women's Day rally at the Castlegate at 1830
• March 22 - Public talk on Palestinian Child Prisoners 
• April 16-18 - STUC Congress in Aviemore
• April 17 - Lewis Macdonald leads a debate in Holyrood on the ATUC 150th anniversary
• April 28 - International Workers Memorial Day (memorial held at Persley Gardens) 
• May 5 - Mayday March and Rally
• May 9 -  An introduction to economics for trade union and community activists
• May 19 - Spring Clean of ATUC Offices and Cataloguing of Books and Artefacts
• May 26 - Grampian Pride 
• June 2 - ATUC stall and the Feein Market, Stonehaven
• June 14 - Vigil to remember Grenfell one year on
• July 10 - Rearranged Trade Union History talk by Jurgen Thomanek 
• July 14 - Trump's a Chump Protest 
• July 25 - A just transition for Aberdeen event
• 8th September - Doors Open Day at 22a Adelphi
• 28th September - Evening of celebration for the XV International Brigade Aberdeen
• November 9 - Aberdeenshire Council's Civic Reception
• November 24 - St Andrews Day March
• December 3 - Commemoration of John Maclean's release from Peterhead Jail
• December 13 - A history of political protest in Aberdeen - a talk by Andrew McGregor

Thanks to everyone who has worked to make our 150th anniversary such a special year and to all those who joined us to celebrate it.

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY ABERDEEN 2018 - THE POWER OF WORDS

Holocaust Memorial Day is an annual event organised by Aberdeen City Council which the ATUC and local trade unions support. It took place this year on the 28th January.

Here ATUC Vice-President, Kathleen Kennedy, who attended to represent the ATUC gives an account of a very moving event. With thanks to Norman Adams, Aberdeen City Council for the photographs.

"Holocaust Memorial Day marks the liberation from Auschwitz-Birkenau which was the Nazi's largest death camp. Having been there last year I can tell you it was large - almost as large as a small town!

This event was held downstairs in the Belmont cinema which was most appropriate as we remember how many lost their lives and tried to hide from the Nazis.

Holocaust Memorial Day Aberdeen 28th January - "The Power of Words"

You are invited to attend an event in Belmont Film House, Aberdeen on 28th January 2018 to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day.

Entitled "The Power of Words" the event will begin with a reception and refreshments at 11.30am and the film, Sarah's Key will be shown at 1pm. The full programme is detailed below.

You can book a place by clicking here.

Programme at the

The Belmont Cinema

28^th January 2018

Aberdeen

Time	Activity	Presented by
11:30 – 12:00	Reception with refreshments and  musical rendition	dr Wojciech Golec and mgr Marcin Zupanski from the University of Silesia
12:00 – 12:10	Welcome and Introductions by the Lord Provost – Lighting of the candle	Lord Provost
12:10 – 12:13	The power of words… poem recital	Tommy Campbell
12:13 – 12:20	Lessons from Auschwitz	Learning From Auschwitz students
12:20 – 12: 40	‘ONEG SZABAT – Letter from the underground archives of the Warsaw Ghetto	Professor Tomasz Kawski from the University of Kazimierz Wielki
12:40 – 12:50	Sumaripen: Why Remembrance Matters	David Donaldson
12:50	Yiddish lullaby	Helen Lynch
13:00 – 14:50	Sarah’s Key	A feature film by Gilles Paquet-Brenner
15:00 – end	The power of words is the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2018.  Words can make a difference – both for good and evil.

Holocaust Memorial Day Walk 28th January - Lest we forget

You are welcome to join Aberdeen Interfaith Group members at their HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL WALK on SATURDAY 28 JANUARY along the river and across the bridges, to remember those who have died and those who have survived Genocides.


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See Aberdeen City's Holocaust Memorial event below 

What is Holocaust Memorial Day and why must we never forget?

Holocaust Memorial Day takes place on 27 January each year. It’s a time for everyone to pause to remember 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.

Holocaust Memorial Day - Lest we forget

Aberdeen City Council's Holocaust Memorial Day event will take place on Sunday 29^th January 2017 at the Belmont Filmhouse.

The event is organised by Aberdeen City Council along with a number of partners including the University  of Aberdeen, GREC, and Unite.

The event is free but booking is essential. The documentary will be screened at 3.15pm.

Booking can be made by phoning Belmont Filmhouse Box Office -Tel: 01224 343500

or  via

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/holocaust-memorial-day-2017-commemoration-at-belmont-filmhouse-tickets-30951131668

The programme for the event is as follows:

Don't stand by - Aberdeen Holocaust Memorial Event 31st Jan 2016

Aberdeen City Council's Holocaust Memorial Day event will be held in the Belmont Cinema in Aberdeen on Sunday 31st January 2016 at 2pm. The event will feature the 1945 documentary, Night Will Fall, commissioned by the Allies and under the tutelage of Alfred Hitchcock that captured the atrocities in Nazi concentration camps.

The Lord Provost will introduce the event and there will be a range of speakers. Refreshments will also be served.

The event is supported by a number of organisations including UCU, Grampian Racial Equality Council, Ethnic Minority Council, Polish Association Aberdeen, Aberdeen Hebrew Congregation and Aberdeen for a Fairer World.

All are welcome to attend.

Holocaust Memorial Day 27th January 2016 - Don't stand by. Join the UCU event to reflect on its importance today

Come along to the Regent Lecture Theatre at the University of Aberdeen, on Wednesday 27 January 2016 from 12:30pm – 2:00pm and join the UCU-sponsored event on Holocaust Memorial Day 2016 to reflect on the contemporary importance of the Holocaust.

Professor Alan Marcus (Chair in Film and Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen) will be introducing and screening his film The Cemetery (2010, 30mins).

Engaging with the presence and absence of Kafka in Prague’s ancient Jewish quarter, The Cemetery explores the relationship between the contemporary urban setting and the impact of the Holocaust. Set against the backdrop of mass tourism to sites such as the oldest Jewish Cemetery in Europe and the oldest synagogue, where Kafka had his bar mitzvah, the film presents a visual and aural meditation on the intersection of the banal and the sacred. As the narrative unfolds, we learn the interlocking fate of Kafka’s three sisters and the tragedy of Terezin.