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Archive Webcast of the Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration at the Holocaust Centre: 27th January 2006, 2:00-3:40 p.m Download Media Player Technical help

Programme:

John Williams                             Theme from Schindler’s List (1993)

Schindler’s List, a Steven Spielberg film,tells the compelling and true story of the German businessman Oskar Schindler, who went to Nazi-occupied Poland to gain materially from the war and left as a rescuer of more than 1,100 Jews.  It received seven Academy Awards in 1993.  The opening theme of John Williams' memorable musicfor the film is played in the composer's own arrangement this afternoon.   

Welcome by Dr Stephen Smith, Chair of The Holocaust Centre and the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

Guest of Honour: Sister Renate Seebass, Rescuer, awarded 'Righteous Among the Nations"

Hidden Film:From Cookery to Liberation footage; Mary Dante, Nottinghamshire author and graphic illustrator

Response by John Chillag, Survivor of Buchenwald

I See No Bravery: Ron Lawrence, Black Police Association, Nottinghamshire

Who saves a single life, saves the world entire:

Nicole David, Hidden Child, rescued by a Catholic family

Beatha Uwazaninka-Smith, rescued by a Muslim family during the Rwandan genocide

Hermann D. Koppel     Two Miniatures  for Piano (1970)

Denmark was the only occupied country that actively resisted the Nazi regime's attempts to deport its Jewish citizens. On 28 September 1943, Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, a German diplomat, secretly informed the Danish resistance that the Nazis were planning to deport the Danish Jews. Within a two-week period, fishermen helped ferry 7,220 Danish Jews and 680 non-Jewish family members to safety across the narrow body of water separating Denmark from Sweden. Amongst them was Danish composer Herman Koppel, whose Two Miniatures for Piano are performed today in memory of all those who risked their personal safety in the rescue effort – unique because it was nationwide.  

Key Note: The Power of One

Professor Carol Rittner RSM, Richard Stockton College, New Jersey, USA

Are we making a difference today? Dr James Smith, Chief Executive Officer, Aegis Trust and the Holocaust Centre

Reflections: John Mann, MP, Chair of Parliamentary Committee against Antisemitism

Reading by Craig Taylor and Sophie McGregor, Abbotsholme School

Candle Lighting: Mrs Marina Smith, Founder

John Chillag, Holocaust Survivor

Nicole David, Holocaust Survivor

Dorothy Fleming, Holocaust Survivor

Waldemar Ginsburg, Holocaust Survivor

Kitty Hart-Moxon, Holocaust Survivor

Lady Margaret Kagan, Holocaust Survivor

Ernst Bloch                                Nigun (1923)

Nigun (Improvisation) is the second of Three Pieces for Violin and Piano written in 1923, entitled Baal-Shem (Three Pictures of Chassidic Life)

The creator of music of great spiritual expression, Ernest Bloch was born on 24 July 1880 in Geneva, Switzerland, and moved to America in 1924 where he eventually became director of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.  A masterly composer of music for strings, he appropriated established novel musical elements into highly dramatic scores, often influenced by philosophical, poetic, or religious themes.  

“Goodness, like evil, begins with small steps.”

Rabbi David Blumenthal

“If we instruct our children to value all human life, empathise with people in distress; and [respect] differences among people, we could create a society in which an Auschwitz would be unthinkable.” Eva Fogelman, What motivated Perpetrators?