One Person Can Make A Difference

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Section 1World War II –

Prejudice to Genocide

Two of the millions picked out for murder by the Nazis.

Gypsy children in a resettlement camp trying to continue their education.

This Synagogue was one of many destroyed on Kristellnacht.

Pseudoscientific Testing

Schuta Weinrich

Badges of the

Holocaust

Soldiers forced the Jews into the Ghetto.

Jewish children in the Lodz Ghetto.

Jewish Partisans

Jews and Gypsies were forced into trains for their journey to the extermination camps.

Gypsy fathers and sons in an extermination camp

These were just some of the possessions taken from the millions murdered by the Nazis

“Whoever destroys a soul,it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world.

And whoever saves a life,it is considered as if he saved an entire world.”

Talmud.

Section 2

Holocaust Memorial Day 2006

One Person Can Make A Difference.

Rescuers and Helpers:

"And to them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name (a "yad vashem")... that shall not be cut off."(Isaiah, chapter 56, verse 5)

Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations

Armin T. Wegner

© Ara Sarafian

Anne Frank

““It only takes a moment to start to improve the world.” Anne Frank.

Sophie Scholl

Oskar Schindler

© Wiener Library

Nicholas Winton

Sempo Sugihara

Frank Foley

‘…a man of humanity in a time of unparalleled inhumanity’

Raoul Wallenberg

Janusz Korczak

Andrée Geulen

Herscovici

Helen Bamber

Paul Rusesabagina

Sula Karuhimbi

Aisha

and

Yahaya

Pastor Niemoeller

What Do We Learn?

Holocaust Memorial Day inspires us all to:

• stand up to injustice;• learn and educate each other about differentcommunities, cultures, religions andsexualities;• accept and embrace diversity;• never scapegoat whole communities for theactions of a few.

Schuta, one of thousands of children killed by the Nazis, because he was considered to be

different from the majority.

A candle burns in Kielce, Poland, at the memorial to 46 Jews murdered there on their return home after surviving the Holocaust.

Copyright: Aegis Trust

We wish to acknowledge the support of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.

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