Salam alaikum, peace be with you. Welcome to today's special Friday Reflections for Holocaust Memorial Day, when we learn about the past and take action for a better future. On this day in 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp, was liberated. Approximately 1.1 million men, women and children were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau,…Read more Friday Reflections 27.01.2023
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Yom HaShoah 2022
“He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.”~ The Bible, Isaiah 2:4 (NIV) As we learn about the terrible atrocities being committed…Read more Yom HaShoah 2022
Holocaust Memorial Day 2022
Today we commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, a day we remember the millions of people murdered in the Holocaust, under Nazi Persecution, and in the genocides which followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur. https://youtu.be/sz5_pDMrNIE
Remembering Srebrenica
On 11th July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces captured the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Under the command of Ratko Mladic, Serbian forces committed the worst atrocity in Europe since World War Two, as they systematically murdered more than 8,000 Bosniaks in under two weeks. Bosniaks are Bosnians who believe in a united multifaith Bosnia. The…Read more Remembering Srebrenica