Evening event at 7:30pm. Day starts at 10:00am
10:00am – 11:30am Holocaust Memorial Day Interfaith Remembrance Event at the Multi-Faith Centre (DE22 1GB)
Derbyshire Jewish Community & Every Stitch A Story invite you for a morning of reflection and remembrance.
- 10am – Welcome coffee and a chance to see the 80 Candles Quilt
- 10.30 – Welcome & Introduction – Eve Sacker, Trustee of MFC
- 10.40 – Overview of 80 candles Quilt Project – Laura Burrill, Every Stitch A Story
- 10.50 – Poetry reading, Longing by Sonja Jaslowitz, read by young participants of the project from Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School & Anthony Gell School
- 11.00 – Jewish participant contribution stories including Rolf Lang
- 11.10 – Short film showing ‘ Searching for traces’
- 11.20 – Close of event with Rabi Gili Zidkiyahu, with ribbon tying to the MFC ‘Peace Tree’
This event is free to attend, advance booking essential. Parking available onsite,advance reservation required book here. Alternative parking is available at Markeaton Park a short walk from the University. Markeaton Lane, Derby DE22 4NH.
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2:30pm Derby Cathedral Irongate, DE1 3GP- a service of reflection followed by the stone setting by the trees on Cathedral Green. All who wish to do so may take part and stones will be provided at the trees.
4:00 pm Presentations at the Bosnian Centre, Curzon Street, DE1 1LN
6:00pm Derby Cathedral – a service of Commemoration, Remembrance and Hope
7:30pm – 9:00pm start (Doors open 7:00pm) : “An Event for Holocaust Memorial Day” – to commemorate the day with a key note speech, music, poetry, dance and spoken word. This will be held at the Derby Cathedral due to the unavailability of QUAD.
No tickets or booking are required. Refreshments available.
Programme:
- Aye Mere Pyaare Watan (The Yearn for the Motherland) and Ek Tu hi Bharosa (You are our support) performed by Surtal Arts Community Choir
- Susanna Petrosyan Keynote speech: A personal story of ethnic cleansing and cultural genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh / Artsakh (Link to text of speech) (Video of speech)
- Kazhut Vse Myne (They say everything will pass) performed by Alyona Kildishova
- Song performed by Ukrainian singer Oleksii Rudenko – “Choven” (Boat, oh my little sailboat)
- Finding Traces and the Hilda School reading by Rolf Lang – film link below
- Life After Genocide reading by Linda Asquith
- Kołysanka (Lullaby) performed on the piano by Emma
- Poem “Song” by Charles Whittaker
- Vyshyvantsi (Ribbon Dance) and Barabantsi (Drum Dance) performed by Hoverla Ukrainian Dance Ensemble Musicians
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If you have any questions please email us at hmdderby@outlook.com
Resources:
“Searching for Traces” – a film about Liese and Margarethe Peritz – Rolf Lang
“Do not be indifferent”. Auschwitz survivor Marian Turski delivers powerful address
Holocaust Memorial Day - Derby 