Holocaust Memorial Week: Reading of Names

Each year on Holocaust Memorial Day, we come together to remember the victims of the Holocaust and other genocides with the ‘Reading of Names’.

This Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp complex, and the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Bosnia.

We are asking our University community to take part in this act of remembrance, reading names in-person from 10.50am-11.10am, 11.50am–12.10pm, 12.50pm-1.10pm and 1.50pm-2.10pm between Square 4 and Square 5.

The Reading of Names is a significant act of remembrance best expressed by David Berger, who was shot dead at the age of 19 in Vilnius, Lithuania: ‘If something happens, I would want there to be somebody who would remember that someone named D. Berger had once lived. This will make things easier for me in the difficult moments’.

The names that will be read will be shown as a video on the large screen at The Forum on our Southend Campus.

Please contact the Events Team if you would like to take part in this act of remembrance.