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A Story of Resistence on Holocaust Memorial Day: the Attack on the Twentieth Convoy (Post)
Holocaust Memorial Day recalls one of the worst crimes in human history. It's also a time to reflect on the heroic and humanitarian actions of those who did all they could to stand with the margin ...
The Importance of Human Rights for Refugees (Post)Note from Luke: for today's blog post on UN Human Rights Day, Pete tells the fascinating story of his family's arrival in Britain over 100 years ago and how the establishment of human rights has c ...
Against the Dying of the Light: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising(Post)"Do not go gentle into that good night; Rage, rage against the dying of the light." The Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, wrote those words in 1951. A few years earlier, on 19th April 1943, Jewish ...
Then They Came for Me: The Story of Martin Niemöller (Post)Martin Niemöller's confession is known across the world - but who actually was he? As far as radical, progressive politics is concerned, Martin Niemöller was not a commendable man. He w ...
Holocaust Memorial Day and the Liberation of Auschwitz(Post)Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. Holocaust remembrance often foregrounds lessons about the human capacity for evil if racism, state power, and the process of dehumanisation are left unchecked. I ...