#OnThisDay in 1945, Dachau Concentration Camp was liberated by US Army soldiers.

Dachau was the first concentration camp to be constructed by the Nazis and one of the last to be liberated. Over 180,000 people had been imprisoned in the camp by the time it was liberated. #OTD

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Rwanda, United Kingdom, & Holocaust Memorial Day Trust co-hosted the first-ever joint commemoration of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. Over 180 guests, including Diplomats, UK gov’t officials, gathered in solidarity to renew their commitment to combat genocide denial. #Kwibuka30

2023 saw tragic events which impacted on #HolocaustMemorialDay . Although we faced unprecedented challenges, a range of HMD activities were run in workplaces, prisons, schools and other settings, representing the diverse ways we mark HMD in the UK.

Read more in our impact report.

This morning we attended the #Kwibuka30 ceremony held to commemorate 30 years since the genocide against the Tutsi in #Rwanda .

We are pleased to have worked with Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and 🇷🇼Rwanda in UK 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇲🇹 to organise this moving commemoration, at which our CEO, Olivia Marks-Woldman, spoke about the need

#OnThisDay in 1915, 235 leading members of Istanbul’s Armenian community were arrested. Many of them were then tortured and publicly executed.

By the end of the First World War, an estimated 1.5 million Armenians had been murdered as a result of Ottoman policies. #OTD

#OnThisDay in 1945 Soviet troops liberated Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. They found 3,000 unguarded, weak and ill prisoners. These were the people who were too unwell to join the forced death march, which set off from Sachsenhausen the day before liberation. #OTD

#OnThisDay in 1943 the Warsaw Ghetto uprising began.

When the Nazis entered #Warsaw Ghetto to liquidate it, approximately 750 fighters fought the well-armed and trained soldiers. The revolt lasted until 16 May 1943, when the fighters were finally defeated. #OTD

#OnThisDay in 1975, Khmer Rouge forces entered Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia and defeated the ruling Lon Nol Army.

The taking of Phnom Penh marked the beginning of the genocide in Cambodia, during which it is estimated that well over two million people were murdered. #OTD

Thank you to our expert panel Lord Lord (Eric) Pickles, Tamara Finkelstein
Defra UK and HMD activity organiser Andy Lawrence who spoke on the importance of #HMD2025 yesterday.

Keep an eye out as we bring you news about HMD 2025, marking 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.

Yesterday we came together with key stakeholders to reflect on the positive differences #HolocaustMemorialDay 2024 made and to launch plans for #HMD2025 .

Keep an eye out as we bring you news about HMD 2025, when we'll mark 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.

One year ago today fighting broke out in Khartoum. This was only the latest escalation in a conflict that has caused the most urgent humanitarian crisis in the world

We have published a briefing on Sudan, drawing on recent reporting and our collections wienerholocaustlibrary.org/2024/04/15/a-b…

#OnThisDay in 1994, the massacre at Nyarubuye Catholic Church during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda began.

On 15 and 16 April 1994, 5,000-10,000 people were murdered at the Church.

Approximately 1 million people in total were murdered during the genocide. #Kwibuka30

#OnThisDay in 1945, British troops liberated Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp.

In the days that followed, more than 13,000 people died as a result of their treatment at the camp.

More than 70,000 prisoners, the majority of whom were Jewish, were murdered at Bergen-Belsen. #OTD

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#OnThisDay in 1945 Buchenwald Concentration Camp was liberated by American troops.

Between 1937 and 1945 approximately 250,000 people were imprisoned at Buchenwald, over 56,000 of whom were killed. #OTD

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This month marks 30 years since the genocide against the Tutsi in #Rwanda began.

30 years ago today the Interahamwe (civilian death squad) had set up roadblocks and were rounding up and killing Tutsi men, women and children.

Learn more about the genocide below.
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'I was just 11 when he killed my dad’s younger sister, a woman with whom he shared five children.'

We're pleased to have facilitated this Metro article in which Antoinette Mutabazi, survivor of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, speaks of forgiveness and recovery on