Rainbow Hamlets holds Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony
Edwin Sessange, Kemal Pervanic, Jack Gilbert and Noreddaum - Credit: Archant
About 70 people attended Rainbow Hamlets’ Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony yesterday evening.
The event at the John Scurr Centre was the only LGBT-organised event of its kind in London and included Jewish, LGBT, Muslim and African personal testimonies.
Jack Gilbert, who is one of the founders of Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain and chairs Rainbow Hamlets, said: “It was a very powerful event with a real diverse section of people in terms of interests and ages.
“As someone who grew up as one of the second generation, a child of someone who was involved in the war, I think one of the most important things is education.” He spoke about his family’s experience of the Holocaust, including his mother who was an unaccompanied child refugee on the Kindertransport.
Leon Silver, president of Nelson Street synagogue, read a prayer of rememberance.
You may also want to watch:
The Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony also launched Rainbow Hamlets’ online LGBT educational resources section which provides an insight into LGBT life in pre-war Germany and the impact of Nazi persecution.
Mr Gilbert said: “There is very little available online about the LGBT experience and hopefully this will help to fill in some of the gaps.”
Most Read
- 1 Tribute to 7th Barts Health Trust worker to die of Covid-19
- 2 The Queen lends her name to Royal London’s emergency Covid wards
- 3 Airbnb house party violence leaves police officer with broken finger
- 4 Teenager found dead in Victoria Park
- 5 Driver arrested after police 'drugs patrol' stops car in Whitechapel
- 6 Drug and alcohol abuse by Tower Hamlets parents and children soars
- 7 'We need laptops for lockdown children to learn from home’ Tower Hamlets mayor urges
- 8 Have you seen this 52-year-old man missing from Ilford?
- 9 Disgraceful management of the pandemic
The group’s educational resources can be accessed by visiting www.rainbowhamlets.org
