A service to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day 2018 will be held at Pontio in Bangor on Friday, 26 January, between 10:30am to 11:30am.
The theme of this year’s service is ‘The Power of Words’ and will feature music and readings from local schools, members of the local community, the Students Union, The Chaplaincy Team, and University Staff.
The service, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the Room of Requirement in the Students Union in Pontio and refreshments will be served afterwards.
Holocaust Memorial Day has taken place in the UK since 2001, with over 7,700 local activities taking place on or around 27 January each year.
Between 1941 and 1945, the Nazis attempted to annihilate all of Europe’s Jews. This systematic and planned attempt to murder European Jewry is known as the Holocaust (The Shoah in Hebrew).
From the time they assumed power in 1933, the Nazis used propaganda, persecution, and legislation to deny human and civil rights to Jews. They used centuries of anti-semitism as their foundation. By the end of the Holocaust, six million Jewish men, women and children had perished in ghettos, mass-shootings, in concentration camps and extermination camps.
Event details
Where:
Students Union
Pontio
Bangor
Gwynedd
LL57 2TQ
Cost: Free
Primary Organiser Name: Nathan Abrams
Organiser Phone: 01248 382196
Organiser Email: n.abrams@bangor.ac.uk
Attendance details: Open to the public
