A poem is read by the SU President every year for Holocaust Memorial Day.
Dudley Holocaust Commemoration 2026
Bridging Generations
We come to sit today to hear
horrors of the past.
Impossible to comprehend,
Their courage will always last.
We listen to the stories told,
Days so dark and brave.
Memories shared from long ago,
Forget not, those lives who gave.
We realise the fear they faced!
Change attitudes, to choose what’s right,
Make our homes, our towns, our world,
A place to be, of peace and light.
And now their gift we carry on,
Resilience they have shown,
To speak up when we witness wrong,
And never stand alone.
Tireless efforts – we will understand
Hate, Prejudice – to overcome,
Together, we can show the way,
Educate, and learn from what was done.
Though time moves on and voices fade,
Their lessons still shine bright,
Kindness, care, strength and hope
We should always keep in sight.
Dudley Holocaust Commemoration 2025
For A Better Future
The undeniable, reprehensible, heinous past.
Raw memories embedded in present mind.
Searching souls, with hope for a better future,
Fearing fate being left to cruel mankind.
Stop the hatred; a sprawling infectious disease,
Show kindness to neighbours; a promising start,
World at peace, not at war, for the good of tomorrow,
Think ahead, do one’s best, hence we all play our part.
Dudley Holocaust Commemoration 2024
Thoughts for Freedom
Live, work, worship… love how we choose,
Taken for granted – we hope never to lose.
Expression, movement, and freedom of mind
Imprisoned, enslaved - so brutal, unkind.
Challenge regimes and restriction of rights,
curtailed professions, education, and life.
Freedom is fragile, enjoy fellow kindness,
What is freedom? Take a thought to remind us
Dudley Holocaust Commemoration 2023
Ordinary People
The perpetrators, the persecuted,
rescuers and bystanders.
Deniers, witnesses,
victims, survivors.
The cruelties of history
Can happen again
Affecting ordinary people
Living ordinary lives.
Extra-ordinary choices
For us all to decide
Stand up, challenge hatred,
Be respectful and guide.
Dudley Holocaust Commemoration 2022
One Day
One Day, in history....
Too many to choose!
One day, life changed...
They were waiting for news
One day, a future
with no genocide?
One day, make choices
let hope be our guide
One day, learn lessons
the pain of holocaust
Forget not those who have suffered
And those we have lost