WHY DO WE NEED HOLOCAUST DAY?
Broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kholi challenges the case for Britain holding a national day to remember the holocaust.
Friday 20th January 7.35pm
Saturday 21st January 4.50am
Broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kholi challenges the case for Britain holding a national day to remember the holocaust.
Friday 20th January 7.35pm
Saturday 21st January 4.50am
Singh Kholi is a Sikh, brought up in Glasgow, and now living in north London. He's no Holocaust denier, and readily supports the importance of teaching children about what happened.
But in this film, he questions whether it is appropriate or necessary for Britain to have a national day to commemorate the holocaust when, as a nation, we don’t have national days to commemorate other historical tragedies or the millions who died as a result of the slave trade.
Singh Kholi goes on a journey to discover more about Holocaust Memorial Day and explores the events in the late 1990s which led to the day being established.
He interviews prominent figures from Britain’s different cultural communities, Jewish and non-Jewish, about the day and its relevance.
But in this film, he questions whether it is appropriate or necessary for Britain to have a national day to commemorate the holocaust when, as a nation, we don’t have national days to commemorate other historical tragedies or the millions who died as a result of the slave trade.
Singh Kholi goes on a journey to discover more about Holocaust Memorial Day and explores the events in the late 1990s which led to the day being established.
He interviews prominent figures from Britain’s different cultural communities, Jewish and non-Jewish, about the day and its relevance.