National Holocaust Memorial Day 2004

January 27th 2004 is National Holocaust Memorial Day. The theme this year is "From the Holocaust to Rwanda: Lesson learnt, lessons still to learn" - it marks the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide.

To mark the day school children in Gloucestershire are writing poems, some of which will be performed at a ceremony at Gloucester Guildhall on the morning of Jan 27th.

As inspiration for poem writing iRespect presents the following materials:-

• A talk by Leon Greenman - a Nazi death camp survivor
• Holocaust Poetry Writing Frames
• Porrajmos - the Gypsy Holocast (some background information)
• Example Poems
  • Holocaust
  • 98288
  • An Apple Tree
  • Ten Photographs of the Concentration Camps Today
  • Come on Rwanda
  • Rwanda
  • Gypsies and the Holocaust
  • One in Ten
  • Ploughshares Into Swords
  • Porrajimos
  • Eddie Hamel and Never Again
  • Gassed
  • Given Time
  • Next Year in Jerusalem
  • Dream
  • They Played Football at Auschwitz on Sundays

For more information on Holocaust Memorial Day please visit the website .