‘The man who broke into Auschwitz’ launches book at The Holocaust Centre
8 April 2011 – Wartime hero Denis Avey, who recounts how as a prisoner of war he twice broke into Auschwitz III and also helped to save the life of a Jewish inmate, last week launched his memoirs at The Holocaust Centre (home of the Aegis Trust) together with Rob Broomby, formerly the BBC’s Berlin […]
Lubanga Chronicle #71 Truth or Lies? The Questions continue
Monday, 22 March 2010- Lubanga Chronicle #71 Truth or Lies? The Questions continue Prosecution Witness 15 continues giving evidence. Throughout his testimony, the witness has claimed that an intermediary who cooperated with the Office of the Prosecutor induced him to fabricate lies. Witness 15 gave a similar account when he appeared in court for the […]
Lubanga Chronicle #47 Participating Victim: “I want to take this opportunity to tell the world what happened and ask for reparations.”
Wednesday, 13 January 2010 For the first time in the history of international criminal justice, a victim takes the stand to give evidence in person. He has not been called by the Prosecution, nor by the Defence. He comes to this Court at his own request, “to tell the world” about the abuses that occurred […]
British PoW who saved Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz joins survivors to mark Holocaust Memorial Day
26 Jan 10 – Wartime hero Denis Avey, who as a prisoner of war in Auschwitz helped save the life of Jewish inmate Ernst Lobethall, today joined survivors at The Holocaust Centre – home of the Aegis Trust – on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day to commemorate those who died. This year it is […]
Lubanga Chronicle #46 UN Special Representative Radhika Coomaraswamy: “Do not ignore the central abuse perpetrated against girls”
Friday, 8 January 2010 After a long hiatus, the first trial before the ICC recommences with a clear statement: the Court must give justice to girls recruited by the militia of the accused Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. The UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for children and armed conflict, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, took the stand […]
Second Trial of Congolese militia leaders to commence Tuesday, 24 November 2009
The Prosecutor v. Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui Germain Katanga, alleged commander of the Force de résistance patriotique en Ituri (FRPI), and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, alleged former leader of the Front des nationalistes et intégrationnistes, (FNI), are accused of three crimes against humanity (murder, sexual slavery and rape) and seven war crimes (using children […]
Second Trial of Congolese militia leaders to commence Tuesday, 24 November 2009
The Prosecutor v. Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui Germain Katanga, alleged commander of the Force de résistance patriotique en Ituri (FRPI), and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, alleged former leader of the Front des nationalistes et intégrationnistes, (FNI), are accused of three crimes against humanity (murder, sexual slavery and rape) and seven war crimes (using children […]
Auschwitz survivor starts public talk series at Holocaust Centre
27 June 08 – On Saturday 5 July, 88-year-old Trude Levi will visit The Holocaust Centre, home of the Aegis Trust, as the first of this year’s summer weekend survivor speakers. She will take her listeners back – 64 years to the day – to the last journey she and her parents shared; five days […]
Holocaust Centre hosts Rwandan Genocide vigil
12 Apr 08 – Survivors from Rwanda, Darfur and the Holocaust – now living in Nottingham, Derby, Coventry and other locations across the Midlands – gathered at the Holocaust Centre for an all-night vigil staged by the Aegis Trust on Saturday night, 12 April, to mark the 14th anniversary of the start of the Rwandan […]
Nanking: wounds unhealed
13 Dec 07 – The Aegis Trust today released a short film about the Nanking massacre on the 70th anniversary of the fall of the city to the Japanese Imperial Army, 13 December 1937. Click here to view In a six-week period following the capture of Nanking, Japanese troops murdered around 300,000 unarmed PoWs and […]