Jewish and Muslim women from across the Nisa-Nashim network joined together to attend Holocaust Memorial Day events. Our members were present at events held in Bournemouth, London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow and Belfast.
Sunday 27th January 2019 marked Holocaust Memorial Day. This year’s theme was Torn from home, which encourages reflection on how the enforced loss of a safe place to call ‘home’ is part of the trauma faced by anyone experiencing persecution and genocide. Holocaust Memorial Day 2019 also included marking the 25th anniversary of the Genocide in Rwanda, which began in April 1994 and the 40th anniversary of the end of the Genocide in Cambodia, which ended in 1979.
Here are the photos from some of the events that our members attended:
Co-founder Julie Siddiqi with Holocaust survivor Renee Salt.
Co-founder Laura Marks at an event in Belfast, where speakers included survivors of both the Holocaust, and the genocide in Rwanda.
Members of our Harrow group at the national event in London.
Sally and Saha from our student group at the national event in Westminster.
One of our Marylebone co-chairs, Liz, with Nisa-Nashim members at the national HMD event.
Co-founder Laura Marks with Micky Youngson and Remona Aly at the event in Westminster.
Co-founders Laura Marks and Julie Siddiqi with Judy Silkoff and her grandmother, a Holocaust survivor.
One of our trustees, Ahmereen, at an event in London organised by MAAS – Muslims Against Anti-Semitism.
Liz, one of our Marylebone co-chairs, reading about Muslims who saved Jews during the Holocaust, at the MAAS event in London.