Songs of Praise

Holocaust Memorial Day (2020x4)

Uitzenddatum: Jan 26, 2020

To mark Holocaust Memorial Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Aled Jones meets Dr James Smith, the Christian co- founder of the National Holocaust Centre and Museum in Nottingham and hears about the outreach work taking place there with schools and survivors. The programme features Jewish Holocaust survivors now living in the UK, including a German lady who was rescued as a child and then educated in England by the Quakers, and a Polish survivor who witnessed the murder of her aunt by the Nazis. Diane Scupholme tells Aled about the role her father, a chaplain, played in the liberation of Belsen and how the reports written by British chaplains became an important historical record of the cruelty and suffering experienced by those imprisoned in the camps. The Chief Executive of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, Olivia Marks-Woldman, tells Pam Rhodes about the special projects and events taking place across the UK to mark this landmark anniversary, and we have hymns from around the country, including Abide With Me from Glasgow Cathedral, The Lord’s My Shepherd from Tideswell in Derbyshire and Make Me a Channel of Your Peace from Northampton.