Thank you Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 for your inspirational work! By the end of this school year we will have reached c 20,000 young people participating in our #Cambridge Holocaust Education sessions & reflecting on their learning by co-creating poetry, song, dramas, dance, artworks!!

I wonder how many school students we've reached in our Holocaust Education sessions over the last few years, Helen Weinstein ? 5000? 10,000? How many students have written poems, stories, done empathy drama work? What do you think?

I'm really looking forward to this exhibition. It shows in Jewish people's own words what they thought and how they reacted to the oncoming horror of the Holocaust. (It also includes a letter to my father's cousin.)
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On this day in 1944, my father's uncle Martin (Chil Majer) Rozen was in Drancy transit camp awaiting deportation to Auschwitz. The inmates said that they were heading for 'Pitchipoï' - a nonsense word to cover that no one knew what their fate would be.

Today, 1944 at 2.30am, 4 gendarmes knocked at the door of Mme Bobières and arrested Martin Rosen/Chil Majer Rozen. In their report, they recorded that he was Jewish, was wearing cotton clothes, flat shoes, a beret and he had a scar on his face. They handed him over to the Nazis.

79 years ago this week, an edict from the Nazi Security Police, based in Poitiers in France was being 'actioned' by the local Prefects and Sub-Prefects in the region. This would result in the arrest of my father's uncle. I've translated the edict here:
michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2019/01/direct…

'When the world struggle ends with the enthronement of human rights, racial persecution will be ended': Churchill, with a lesson to those who for expediency seek to roll back human rights norms. #HolocaustMemorialDay

Michael Brodsky For those who don't know, Eli Eli - in the song version, is a poem in Hebrew written in 1942 by Hungarian Jewish WWII resistance fighter Hannah Szenes.

heartbreakingly beautiful

For #HolocaustMemorialDay     Michael Rosen has recorded poems about his family killed at #Auschwitz , and poems to resist racism and prejudice, and poems from ‘On the Move’ in empathy with refugees. Listen here: audioboom.com/playlists/4613… With thanks to #HistoryWorks :

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For #HolocaustMemorialDay Michael Rosen has recorded poems about his family killed at #Auschwitz & poems to resist racism & prejudice & poems from ‘On the Move’ refugees, so please take a listen Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 and share: bit.ly/2rD1ZRU

'The Holocaust was a Europe-wide crime, not only Nazism, the Holocaust and their legacies continue to be fought over in Europe & beyond

We should at least be clear about the events of 80 years ago if we are to have any hope of making sense of the present' thejc.com/news/news/the-…

EXCLUSIVE: Jewish News publishes full video of the Labour leader listening to Eva's 'remarkable' testimony in a film released by the party to coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day
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An honour to light a candle at the Cambridge City Council Holocaust Memorial event last night. Thankyou to Helen Weinstein for organising. #HolocaustMemorialDay #NeverForget

These poems are so amazing. Do listen.

After Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 visit this week, I had to purchase, On the Move. Poems About Migration 🚶‍♂️🚶🚶‍♀️University of Cambridge Primary School Thinking about the French Uncles today #HolocaustRemembranceDay

Remember, it didn’t start with gas chambers. It started with politicians dividing the people with ‘us vs. them.’ It started with intolerance and hate speech.

When people stopped caring, became desensitized, and turned a blind eye, it became a slippery slope to genocide.

For #HolocaustMemorialDay Michael Rosen has recorded poems about his family killed at #Auschwitz & poems to resist racism & prejudice & poems from ‘On the Move’ in empathy with refugees, so do please take a listen to Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 and share: bit.ly/2rD1ZRU