The Holocaust and other genocide normally are taken as one big event, however, to understand our values as a country I believe that we need to look back. The fact however remains the same, ‘we didn’t keep our promise of never again,’ but we all have a responsibility to prevent genocide, This year I’m going to try something different, marking […]
Being disabled makes me a member of a club of a billion people, we are different, and we are not the same, we may have the same condition but the way it affects us is very indvial. I know my challenges are different to a full-time wheelchair user, but as an ambulatory wheelchair user I am aware of the challenges, […]
When we see the images of places where genocides and massacres have taken place are disturbing, but yet a reminder of how small discriminatory acts, misinformation, and the use of fear can be brought together to justify percussion of minorities.
On the 27 January 1945, the Red Army liberated Auschwitz the biggest mass murder site in the history of the world. Seventy-five years on, and amongst the ever-growing division of Europe and the world, the warning from the Holocaust and all the genocides since is of where the division can lead. With Brexit just days away, we cannot allow the […]
Disabled people I know are actually quite able in their brain and its just the difficulties holding us back.
In 2019, we under the law here in the UK and Europe we are all protected from discrimination. The Equality Act, which protects women, men, age, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, called protected characteristics should give us all the same rights. Although there are some exceptions like religious reasons or Employment where there are cultural sensitivities and Political parties who […]
I have been an ambassador for the Holocaust Educational Trust since I visited the Auschwitz in March 2012. Events of the 1930’s and 40’s I believe are more important now than ever, in an age of nationalism, it’s hard to remember the advents of the period. The Holocaust shows the horrors of man to man, we create divides out of […]