Holocaust Memorial Day - Holocaust Education Trust of Ireland
Holocaust Memorial Day - Holocaust Education Trust of Ireland
Holocaust Memorial Day - Holocaust Education Trust of Ireland
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<strong>Holocaust</strong> <strong>Memorial</strong> <strong>Day</strong> 2006<br />
The <strong>Holocaust</strong> did not start with the gas chambers and the crematoria.<br />
It started with whispers and taunts, with daubings and abuse…<br />
Daubing on the wall <strong>of</strong> a synagogue: “Jew perish”, Dusseldorf, 1935. The Jewish Museum, Dublin, 2005.<br />
Letters from the Briscoe archive<br />
The girl for whom permission was sought to take refuge in <strong>Ireland</strong>, perished in the <strong>Holocaust</strong> after the Nazis invaded Russia in 1941. She was<br />
murdered along with her three sisters, young brother, their widowed mother and grandmother.<br />
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