I’m sooo proud of getting a mention in the House of Commons last Thursday.

@gen2genuk@bsky.social @theajr.bsky.social
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@wellsmaltings.org.uk
#HMD2026

Students from the German School London and the Jewish Community Secondary School gave a powerful and moving Holocaust Memorial concert with Ensemble 360.

The Voices of Justice concert was a joint project between @wigmore-hall.org.uk, Learning from the Righteous and @theajruk.bsky.social. #HMD2026

The Dark Door Opening by Penny Pepper | Together! 2012 Miss J called me a brain box. The other kids in class teased me about it, but I didn’t mind. Dad said I was clever, too, and I liked that. I was at Special School on the rural Hertfordshire side of the Chiltern Hills and overflowing with curiosity and nascent storytelling urges.

Let us never forget, let truth not be buried, yet always look for the light to get in.

You can read my article, The Dark Door Opening, for Holocaust Memorial day here: www.together2012.org.uk/activities-p...

#fridayfollow #Neverforget #HMD2026 #DisabilityRights

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Don Pietro Pappagallo

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The Dark Door Opening by Penny Pepper | Together! 2012 Miss J called me a brain box. The other kids in class teased me about it, but I didn’t mind. Dad said I was clever, too, and I liked that. I was at Special School on the rural Hertfordshire side of the Chiltern Hills and overflowing with curiosity and nascent storytelling urges.

I've lived my life under threat, faced open revulsion & low, questionable expectations. In retaliation, I celebrate my life well lived, & hope you will join me in thinking about your own joyful moments.
www.together2012.org.uk/activities-p...
#fridayfollow #Neverforget #HMD2026 #DisabilityRights

A moving Holocaust Memorial Day event this evening at the Harrow Arts Centre. This year's theme Bridging Generations is a useful reminder to ensure that we work across different age groups collaboratively and that lessons of the past are passed on to future generations. #HMD2026

You knew about this from at least 10 o'clock yesterday morning and left the post up for a day and a half -- essentially the whole of Holocaust Memorial Day -- while it attracted huge numbers of hostile replies, many of them obviously from Jews.

#HMD2026

A last post #HMD2026

Thank you to the crowd who turned out on a dark cold January night to hear about the Kitchener camp rescue in 1939

What a warm, interesting, friendly set of people

It was nerve-wracking but I had a great evening with many thoughtful follow-ups.

Thanks so much Pinner shul🙏

dignitaries and guest speakers standing beside lighted memorial candles

🕯️ Cheshire East Council marked #HolocaustMemorialDay with a moving service in Crewe — featuring survivor testimonies, candle lighting and a minute’s silence.
We heard powerful reflections from council leaders and a poignant family story from guest speaker Hannah Goldstone.
We remember.
#HMD2026

After leaving up their post attacking Jews for the whole of Holocaust Memorial Day, the United Reformed Church @urc.org.uk has now disabled replies and quote posts rather than just deleted it. Absolutely shameless. #HMD2026

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We remember The couple Biener & their son Eugen Philipp (Fischl or Fischyl) Biener, born on 28 January 1870, in Kolomea (Galicia), merchant, residing in Magdeburg, Breiter Weg 99. He was deported to Theresienstadt on 18 November 1942, and died there on 5 December 1942 Regina Biener, née Sternberg, born on 22 November 1876, in Kolomea (Galicia), residing in Magdeburg, Breiter Weg 99. She was deported to Theresienstadt on 18 November 1942, and from there to Auschwitz on 18 December 1943. She died in the Holocaust. Eugen Biener, born on 30 March 1898, in Berlin, residing in Magdeburg, Breiter Weg 99. He was arrested and deported to Sachsenhausen on 29 February 1940, and eventually to Dachau, where he died on 26 January 1941. What do we know about them? Regina & Philipp Biener both came from Galicia, present-day Ukraine. Whether they met and married there or only met later in Germany is unclear. Their eldest son Eugen, at any rate, was already born in Germany in 1898, in Berlin. The three younger sons were all born in Magdeburg: Siegmund in 1899, David in 1904 & Selmar in 1906. Philipp (or Fischl)

Biener was a businessman and, it seems, extremely successful. He and his now adult sons were owners of several companies. The furniture store on Himmelreichstraße 3 operated under the name Biener & Chusiak, but Philipp Biener was the sole owner, later jointly with his son Eugen. Together with his son Selmar, the father also ran, as can be seen from the Magdeburg phone book, a wholesale electrical business at Franz-Seldte-Straße 5 (before 1933: Kaiser-Wilhelmstraße, today Gareisstraße), where he also lived. And he owned the house at Breiter Weg 99, where “Gebrüder Biener,” that is, his son Eugen together with one or more of his brothers, ran a business for car electrics. Mr. Biener built all this up over around thirty years. And he trained capable helpers and employees from among his sons. In 1930, Siegmund married into a Magdeburg family. Cilly Oppenheim becomes his wife, the daughter of Nathan Oppenheim and Roche, née Beitner, who lived at Jakobstraße 40. In 1931, the granddaughter Sonia Margot was born. Much reason to live happily and contentedly. But all of this is brought to an end by the era of National Socialism, its anti-Jewish legislation, its antisemitism, and its terror against Jews, even in Magdeburg. It became increasingly impossible to continue running the businesses. “Aryanization” is the order of the day. Philipp Biener moved - probably under compulsion - with his wife from Seldte-Straße to his rented house, Breiter Weg 99. From 1938, he lived there, as did his son Eugen and the parents of his daughter-in-law, Abraham & Freide Friedler. His sons were already preparing their emigration. Selmar, the youngest, married Elsa Friedler in 1937 or 1938 and went with her in 1939 on the ship St Louis, which was to take her to America. However, the ship only got as far as Cuba, the onward journey was not allowed

But they were not allowed to go ashore in Cuba either. Individual countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium, France & England then take in people from this ship. Selmar & Else Biener are among the 250 people England takes in. Selmar's brother Siegmund also goes to England with his family [NB this is not correct - they went to Israel] David Biener emigrates to Israel. And it can be assumed that the parents, with whom the unmarried eldest son Eugen has stayed, were also preparing to leave the country together. But then the Second World War began and all possibilities of getting out of Germany deteriorated rapidly. Eugen Biener, like many other Jewish men, was arrested and deported to Sachsenhausen on 29 Feb 1940, and finally to Dachau, where he died on 26 Jan 1941 (not 1944, as can be read in the West German memorial book!). The parents received an urn, which they bury in the Magdeburg Jewish Cemetery. Did they have to leave their house at that time to be housed in one of Magdeburg's "Jewish houses", one of those "ghettos without ghetto walls", as they were set up in large numbers in Magdeburg? In any case, on the "transport list" to the so-called "Theresienstadt Ghetto for the Elderly" of 19 Nov 1942 (Transport XX/1), we read her name in connection with Große Mühlenstraße 11/12 - this is one of the "Jewish houses". From there, in the morning hours of 18 Nov 1942, they were taken to a collection point - near the cathedral or near the train station - in order to board one of the wagons bound for Theresienstadt. While they were on their way there, the Nazi officials were already in the process of taking possession of the property of the deportees in Magdeburg and preparing it for auction. Philipp Biener did not survive the deportation to Theresienstadt for long. Three weeks later, the almost 73-year-old dies. His wife Regina had to witness that she was deported to Auschwitz a year after arriving in Theresienstadt. There she is murdered - her date of death is not known

In 2008 I went with my mother & son to Magdeburg to unveil #Stolpersteine for our family. The theme for #HMD2026 #HolocaustMemorial Day is "Bridging Generations" encouraging active engagement with the past. In that spirit, please read their stories (in German, English in ALT text) & remember them.

An elliptical candle with flame.

I have placed a candle in my window to #LightTheDarkness and mark #HolocaustMemorialDay. I stand against prejudice and hatred in the world today. #HMD2026
🕯️🕊️🖤

A story for Holocaust Memorial Day.

Long thread:

#HMD2026

Omdat jij bent geweest
waar jij bent geweest

en ik nu ben
waar ik nu ben

zal ik nooit helemaal kunnen zijn
waar jij bent geweest

en jij nooit helemaal kunnen zijn
waar ik nu ben

Maar we kunnen elkaar het verhaal vertellen
en dat zal voldoende zijn

- A. Soetendorp

#hmd2026 #herdenking

Man in blue sweatshirt by a lit memorial candle in a window

Of the 3,200 Jewish people in #Magdeburg, 1,521 were murdered by the Nazis www.magdeburg.de/B%C3%BCrger/... including my great grandparents. I also lit a candle for my great uncle Eugen Biener. He was imprisoned in #Dachau before the war (he might have been gay) & died there of typhus 😢 #HMD2026

On Holocaust Memorial Day we remember all those who were murdered in the Holocaust and all genocides.

Be the light in the darkness.
#HMD2026

The 27th of January marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945, the largest Nazi death camp.

Eighty-one years on, we remember the six million Jewish men, women and children who were murdered in the Holocaust, and the millions more murdered by the Nazi regime.

#HMD2026

Never again. #HMD2026

On #HolocaustMemorialDay we remember the six million Jewish men, women and children murdered during the horror of the Holocaust, and the millions more murdered under Nazi persecution

Prayers have been said in the Abbey today for peace, justice and hope around the world

#HMD2026 #LightTheDarkness

Purple image with Light The Darkness

On this #HolocaustMemorialDay I'm lighting a candle to #LightTheDarkness to remember my great grandparents Regina & Philip Beiner, murdered by the Nazis. Also in memory of the other 6 million Jews ✡️ killed in the #Shoah, all other victims of the Nazis, & the dead of other genocides. #HMD2026 😢

A light in the darkness.
Remembering all the victims of Nazi oppression.

Never again.

#hmd2026

#HolocaustMemorialDay2026 #LightTheDarkness
#NeverAgain #WeRemember #HMD2026

Honoured to represent Churches Together in England at a moving Holocaust Memorial Day Service in London. A timely reminder that in these divisive days we must resist antisemitism and racism wherever it raises it ugly head. #HMD2026

empty film reels in a grey concrete room at the Jewish Museum in Berlin

Jan. 27, 1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz. On #HMD2026 #HolocaustMemorialDay we remember 6M murdered Jews, + political opponents, Roma, Queer, disabled victims. Historians, writers, and artists have worked for generations to learn from + represent its lessons. "Memory Void," Menashe Kadishman:

We must never forget and this must never happen again
#HMD2026 #Shoah

Today we honor the millions of lives lost and the survivors who continue to share their stories. Let this painful chapter inspire action.

🕯️ Speak up against Holocaust denial.
🕯️ Challenge hate and prejudice.
🕯️ Encourage learning about the Holocaust and other genocides.

#WeRemember #HMD2026

TW: The H0l0c4ust

I made art & lit my candle in memory of the Jewish victims & survivors of the H0l0c4ust.
Shout out to other communities who were persecuted too (e.g. Romani/Sinti and LGBTQ+).

The HMDT web link is on my Linktree.

#holocaustmemorialday #HMD2026 #neveragain #LightTheDarkness

At 8pm on 27 January, we will #LightTheDarkness for #HolocaustMemorialDay.

Light the Darkness is a moment for the nation to come together – to remember the darkness of the past and to create light together, standing united against prejudice and hatred today.

#HMD2026 #HolocaustMemorialDay

The responsibility of remembrance cannot end with the survivors of the Holocaust.

We must bridge the generations, to remember the six million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis.

#HolocaustMemorialDay #HMD2026