2012 Details
2012’s NHMDE will take place in the Northwood synagogues from Monday 30th January to Thursday 2nd February 2012. There will also be sessions at Borehamwood and Elstree Synagogue on Tuesday 26th January and at Bushey Synagogue on Tuesday 31st January and Wednesday 1st February. During the course of these sessions, we will host over 2000 local Year 9 (and above) students. We will also provide special workshops relevant to Year 12 and Year 13.
The theme for 2012 that has been published by the HMD Trust is “Speak Up, Speak Out”.
Mission Statement
The members of the joint organising committee of NHMDE recognise that the Holocaust must have a permanent place in our nation’s collective memory. Humanity is scarred by the belief that race, religion, gender and disability are still used as excuses for prejudice and discrimination and that arising from this, genocide, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism, xenophobia and discrimination continue in the World today.
NHMDE pledge to provide an understanding to local secondary school students, about the Holocaust and other genocides. Each year we arrange a series of two and a half hour educational sessions over four days. These are planned to coincide with National Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) on 27th January, through which students from local schools hear first hand testimony from Holocaust survivors. Through facilitator lead workshops the students explore attitudes today about prejudice in the hope that they do then become more tolerant individuals.
The aim of NHMDE is to motivate people individually and collectively to ensure that the horrendous crimes of racism and victimisation committed during the Holocaust and more recent genocides are neither forgotten, nor repeated. We aim to achieve excellence with sensitivity.
2012’s NHMDE will take place in the Northwood synagogues from Monday 30th January to Thursday 2nd February 2012. There will also be sessions at Borehamwood and Elstree Synagogue on Tuesday 26th January and at Bushey Synagogue on Tuesday 31st January and Wednesday 1st February. During the course of these sessions, we will host over 2000 local Year 9 (and above) students. We will also provide special workshops relevant to Year 12 and Year 13.
The theme for 2012 that has been published by the HMD Trust is “Speak Up, Speak Out”.
Mission Statement
The members of the joint organising committee of NHMDE recognise that the Holocaust must have a permanent place in our nation’s collective memory. Humanity is scarred by the belief that race, religion, gender and disability are still used as excuses for prejudice and discrimination and that arising from this, genocide, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism, xenophobia and discrimination continue in the World today.
NHMDE pledge to provide an understanding to local secondary school students, about the Holocaust and other genocides. Each year we arrange a series of two and a half hour educational sessions over four days. These are planned to coincide with National Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) on 27th January, through which students from local schools hear first hand testimony from Holocaust survivors. Through facilitator lead workshops the students explore attitudes today about prejudice in the hope that they do then become more tolerant individuals.
The aim of NHMDE is to motivate people individually and collectively to ensure that the horrendous crimes of racism and victimisation committed during the Holocaust and more recent genocides are neither forgotten, nor repeated. We aim to achieve excellence with sensitivity.
NHMDE provides a unique opportunity for young people to meet a Holocaust survivor, hear their testimony and work in small groups with trained facilitators to explore the relationship between the past and key issues that they face today such as racism, bullying and discrimination.