Wednesday 27th January 2010, 7:30pm
The Cambridge Union Society is proud to be hosting a commemoration of the national Holocaust Memorial Day, held annually on the anniversary of the liberation of Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. The event is open to non-members, for a suggested donation of £2. All proceeds will go to the AEGIS Trust.
We will be having two remarkable speakers address us. The first is British POW survivor Denis Avey, who has recently come to prominence in the national media as 'the man who smuggled himself into Auschwitz.' Mr Avey twice risked his life to find out the truth about the death camp, and helped a Jewish man survive. This is the first time that Mr Avey has told his story to a live audience.
Our second speaker is Dr. James Smith, co-founder of the UK Holocaust
Memorial and Educational Centre, internationally recognised as a pioneering example of genocide awareness. He is also co-founder and Chief Executive of the AEGIS Trust, which works closely with the government and other international bodies to campaign for the prevention of genocide. It has been instrumental in the setting up of a commemorative centre in Kigali to remember the Rwandan genocide.
The evening will be compered by Lord Greville Janner, Chairman of the Holocaust Educational Trust and a key international figure in efforts to seek compensation and restitution for Holocaust victims. He was instrumental in arranging the 1997 London Nazi Looted Gold conference.
Please join us for this interesting and important commemorative event.
