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Bearing Witness – From Manchester to Srebrenica
In April 2015, community leaders and teachers from Greater Manchester travelled to Bosnia-Herzegovina on our ‘Lessons from Srebrenica’ programme of educational visits to witness at first-hand the testimony of survivors and Mothers who lost loved ones in the Srebrenica genocide. Here, they give their accounts of the experience – filmed at the Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial Complex […]
Manchester leaders and teachers learn Srebrenica lessons
Community leaders and teachers from across Manchester have vowed to take action in their communities to tackle hatred and intolerance after returning from a powerful and moving visit to Srebrenica.
Police commissioner travels back to Srebrenica
Greater Manchester’s Police and Crime Commissioner is visiting Srebrenica - some 15 years after he accompanied the first two refugees who returned to their home following the 1995 genocide.
Congratulations to my dear friend Lord Jim Wallace @jrwallace54 on his appointment as Moderator Designate @churchscotland. Jim is a Patron of @SrebrenicaUK & one of the most amazing people I know and am so delighted that he has been recognised in this way https://t.co/bZnxL5pjgw
After #Facebook banned content that denies the Holocaust, the Institute for Research of Genocide Canada urged the social network to impose a smiliar ban on the denial of the 1995 #Srebrenica genocide.
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Join our friends @TheAJR_ to commemorate Kristallnacht, which took place on 9 November 1938. It was a night of vandalism, violence and persecution against the Jewish population in Nazi territories, that many have since described as ‘the beginning of the Holocaust’. #KeepaLightOn https://t.co/keXeFIlVzq