Holocaust Memorial Day

bystanders, rescuers, witnesses and of courseordinary people were victims.

Year 11 history students sat in complete silence as Janine shared her testimony of how she lost almost all of her family as a result of the German invasion.

Janine introduced herself as ‘an ordinary person with something extraordinary to share.’ She shared her story to help us to ‘remember the six million Jewish people who were murdered and to honour those that helped me to survive.’ Against all odds she survived.

Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) takes place on 27 January each year and is a time to remember the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust, under Nazi persecution and in the genocides which followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. Our Lady’s had the honour of hosting a keynote presentation with Janine Webber. Janine is a survivor of the Holocaust and she shared her harrowing account of living as a Jewish girl in occupied Poland. The theme of this year’s HMD is ‘ordinary people’ because it is ordinary people who were perpetrators,