Holocaust Memorial Week
Since 2007, the University of Essex has marked Holocaust Memorial Day with a series of events at the Colchester Campus in the week that leads up to or includes January 27th, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp by Soviet troops.
For Holocaust Memorial Week 2011, students and staff from across the University of Essex are joining together to organise a wide range of events. We want to offer an opportunity and a framework within which to reflect and discuss the central themes of genocide and its causes.
As part of the week and as an introduction to MUNEX, the Model United Nations Society will host a panel discussion with various perspectives on the Holocaust.
This year, the panel will discuss the origins of the Responsibility to Protect and its place today.
The discussion will be centred on the persecution of homosexuals by the Nazis, and panellists will give their perspective on the issue.
