International Holocaust Memorial

Day

“Speak Up, Speak Out”

27th January 2012

key vocabulary

1. victim

2. perpetrator

3. bystander

4. rescuer

a) Someone who helps others

b) Someone who suffers discrimination, violence or death at the hands of another

c) Someone who carries out a crime

d) Someone who does nothing

Irena Sendler

Janusz Korczak

Franz Wolfhart

Freddie Knoller

Gad Beck

At New York’s Gay Pride 1997

First they came for the CommunistsAnd I did not speak outBecause I was not a CommunistThen they came for the SocialistsAnd I did not speak outBecause I was not a SocialistThen they came for the trade unionistsAnd I did not speak outBecause I was not a trade unionistThen they came for the JewsAnd I did not speak outBecause I was not a JewThen they came for meAnd there was no one left

To speak out for me

First they came

Pastor Martin Niemoller

Why have a Holocaust Memorial Day?

• Is it necessary? Why/why not?

• Is it important? Why?

• What should people do to remember events like this?