Hong Kong to establish a Holocaust and Tolerance Resource Centre |
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Plans are in place to set up a centre in Hong Kong dedicated to promote education and awareness of the Holocaust. The Hong Kong Holocaust and Tolerance Resource Centre (HKHTC) main goal is to become a centre for scholars, teachers, students and the general public, to make accessible locally relevant material in Asia, specifically in Chinese.
The centre will also be responsible for overseeing initiatives already established such as the Asian delegation to the March of the Living. It will be organising UN Holocaust Remembrance Day on 31 January to be held at the Jewish Community Centre. Featuring guest speaker Dr. Stephen Smith, a Holocaust specialist who has started and operated many different Holocaust memorial centres. He founded the UK Holocaust Centre and the Aegis Trust for Genocide Prevention and currently Executive Director, USC Shoah Foundation Institute, the archive of Holocaust survivor testimonies established in 1994. Please login or register to see the full article
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