Holocaust Memorial Day Civic Commemoration City Hall

Holocaust Memorial Day Civic Commemoration City Hall

1.30pm Registration
2.00pm Introduction of day – remembering the past so as to change the present and future
2.05pm Councillor Asher Craig from the Mayor’s Cabinet speaks
2.15pm Barbara Winton: Nicholas Winton & the Czechoslovak Kindertransport: Turning compassion into action
2.45pm Speaker: Unaccompanied Child Refugees: Echoes of the Kindertransport
3.00pm Workshop: Hate Crime – the First Step towards Genocide?
3.30pm Tea Break with time to visit stalls of current Bristol projects
4.00pm Young People’s Re ections on the Holocaust (from St Mary Redcliffe, St Brendan’s and Bristol Grammar School)
4.15pm Dance: Belonging (St Brendan’s Sixth Form College) 4.25pm Helen Wilde, High Sheri , to speak
4.35pm Closing Ceremony led by Father Richard McKay 4.45pm Vote of thanks
4.50pm Finish