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Please join us on Wednesday 27th January at 11am for our commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day using this link: tiny.cc/6MillionPlusPuppetry and performances from refugees and friends involved in the Collect Your Belongings projectCandle lighting and reflections from Iby Knill, local authority and faith leadersI was there in the darkness of the Holocaust. Walk towards the light and take people with you. Iby Knill, Auchswitz survivorThe link will be available for some time after the 27th too. Please share the link in any way you can. ... See MoreSee Less

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Bradford football colours. Little Germany. Nigel Grizzard leading his historical tours about Jewish history. Part of Joanne Hardcastle's shadow show, made with daughters Lily and Iris for 'Collect your Belongings'. Iris made this vivid Bradford scene. We are pleased to be collaborating with Bradford and Kirklees Councils on the online commemoration for Holocaust Memorial Day on the 27th. #bradford #batley #HolocaustMemorialDay #CreativeScene #shadowpuppets #LittleGermany #safercommunitiesfund ... See MoreSee Less

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Moulana Irfan Soni filming his contribution to the online HMD event for the 27th at Dewsbury Minster last Tuesday. Speaking a line of the collective poem and lighting a candle. He is such a good supporter of 6 million +, especially our work in Dewsbury and Batley. #CreativeScene #6millionplus #HolocaustMemorialDay ... See MoreSee Less

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Survivor Eve Kugler shares her story on January 26th.We are delighted to announce that Eve Kugler BEM, who turned 90 yesterday, will be sharing her testimony in our live survivor webcast on Tuesday 26th January, 10am. To sign up please visit this link het.org.uk/hmd-2021/hmd-survivor-webcast-2021Note the webcast is only suitable for ages 13 and up.Eve was born in 1931 in Halle, a medium-sized German city where her father owned a small department store. She grew up alongside her sisters, Ruth and Lea, in a period of ever increasing repression against Jews, terrified by uniformed Nazis who seemed to her to be everywhere.Though her father applied for a visa to Palestine in 1935, the family was repeatedly passed over by Jewish officials in favour of others in imminent danger of arrest. “Nothing will happen to you,” they said to Eve’s father. “You’re just a businessman.”In October 1938 Eve’s 79-year-old grandfather was arrested along with thousands of other Polish Jews living in Germany and returned to Poland in the first ever Nazi deportation. Ten days later came Kristallnacht. Six Nazis rampaged through their home.They destroyed possessions and her grandfather’s sacred Jewish books before marching Eve’s father away as she and her sister watched. That night Nazis smashed the windows of her father’s store and the next day her mother was forced to spend hours sweeping up the broken glass.Their synagogue, founded by Eve’s grandfather, burned down while the fire brigade stood by. Eve’s mother secured her father’s release from Buchenwald. He left for France and the family was evicted from their home. They lived with Eve’s maternal grandfather in cramped conditions.In June 1939 the family fled to France on a forged visa.When the Second World War broke out, the French interned her father because he was a German citizen. Her mother then placed the girls in a home for Jewish children outside of Paris where she became a cook. As the Nazis neared Paris in June 1940 the home survived Nazi bombardment. With the fall of Paris and French surrender the children were evacuated to central France where they lived under Nazi occupation. In 1941 the home received a visa for the US for a small number of children.Mainly orphan children were chosen, but at the last minute two lost their place due to illness. Eve and Ruth took their place, leaving their parents and Lea behind. For the next 5 years Eve lived in New York City in 3 different foster homes, sometimes separated from her sister.In the roundup of Jews in 1942 the French Resistance hid Lea then aged 5½ in a Catholic convent. Her parents survived the war in French concentration camps. They were reunited in NY in 1946. Eve worked as a journalist until she moved to London in 1990.Eve speaks regularly at schools sharing her family’s history. She wrote a book, Shattered Crystals, about the family’s Holocaust history. ... See MoreSee Less

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Jasmina's house in Bosnia that she had to leave behind when she fled from persecution featured in Karen's shadow puppet show of Jasmina's story, and Jasmina with the keys to her house that her grandma kept on a shoelace. We are featuring more of these 'Collect your Belongings' stories in our live event for Holocaust Memorial Day at 11am on the 27th. Photo of Jasmina by Malcolm Johnson, our official photographer for the project. ... See MoreSee Less

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