Theme of the Week Responsibility Monday

Word of the Day You must be the change you wish to see in the world. forty

This week we are going to focus on the importance of human rights and responsibilities within society Each year on 27 January the world marks Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD). HMD has been held in the UK since and the United Nations declared this an International event in November January was chosen as the date for HMD because it was on this date in 1945 that the largest Nazi killing camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated.

Reflection The Butterfly He was the last. Truly the last. Such yellowness was bitter and blinding Like the sun’s tear shattered on stone. That was his true colour. And how easily he climbed, and how high, Certainly, climbing, he wanted To kiss the last of my world. I have been here seven weeks, ‘Ghettoized’. Who loved me have found me, Daisies call to me, And the branches also of the white chestnut in the yard. But I haven’t seen a butterfly here. That last one was the last one. There are no butterflies, here, in the ghetto. Poem by Pavel Friedmann, a young Jewish man who spent time in both the Theresienstadt Ghetto and Auschwitz.