JMI Online: London Assembly Holocaust Memorial Commemoration 2024

JMI – Jewish Music Institute annually works together with City Hall, the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) and The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT) to help create a ceremony that will commemorate victims of the Holocaust and provide time for reflection for those affected by more recent genocides.

The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 is: Fragility of Freedom

• Opening music: Cantor Rachel Weston accompanied by Josh Middleton on accordion 
• Welcome: Mary Harpley, Chief Officer 
• Address: Andrew Boff, Chair of the London Assembly
• Address: Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London
• Holocaust Educational Trust: Karen Pollock CBE, Chief Executive HET
• Testimonial: Janine Webber BEM, Holocaust survivor
• Reflections: Holocaust Educational Trust Ambassadors
• Holocaust Memorial Day Trust: Olivia Marks-Woldman OBE, Chief Executive HMDT
• Testimonial: Safet Vukalić BEM, survivor of the genocide in Bosnia
• Statement of commitment: read by Holocaust Educational Trust Regional Ambassador
• Rabbi Daniel Epstein and Rebbetzin Ilana Epstein, Western Marble Arch Synagogue: reflection and El Male Rachamim memorial prayer
• Lighting of the memorial candle and minute silence
• Closing music: Cantor Rachel Weston accompanied by Josh Middleton on accordion