Join the Parkes Institute for Southampton's annual Holocaust Memorial Day commemorative event.

On January 27 2027, Southampton will mark the UK’s national Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) with a commemorative event organised by the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations (University of Southampton) on behalf of the city.

Event Programme

This year, we welcome Dr Susan Cohen for a talk titled 'Challenging Prejudice: Eleanor Rathbone and her campaigning on behalf of Jewish refugees before and during the Second World War.'

The theme of Holocaust Memorial Day this year, 'No Place for Prejudice', provides a timely opportunity to consider the campaigning work on behalf of refugees, relentlessly pursued by the humanitarian activist, Eleanor Rathbone, MP, both before and during the Second World War. The majority of the people whom she championed were Jews, fleeing persecution in Nazi occupied and fascist Europe, and who were the victims of state sanctioned, unfettered prejudice and racial hatred. This talk will highlight the challenges that her proposals and actions faced at home, especially from within official circles, as she defied the norms of conventional society by supporting the unpopular cause of Jewish refugees.

Further programme information will be released in due course.

Registration

Attendance is free, and all members of the public are welcome. Attendants must register in advance.

Event information

This event is free, and all are welcome to attend. The commemorative event will take place in the Sir James Matthews Building (Above Bar Street, Southampton) from 6pm to 8pm (doors will be open at 5.30 pm).

Refreshments will be available before the event.

Please note that this event is in-person and online. Registrants for online participation will be provided with a live stream link on the day of the event. Online registrants will be able to listen to the event but not participate in questions.

Description supplied by the event organiser.