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 […]
Methodist praise for UK Holocaust Centre
29 Oct 07 – Vice President of the Methodist Conference Mrs Ruby Beech has praised the work of the Holocaust Centre and Aegis Trust, paying tribute to the founders and urging Methodists to visit the Holocaust Centre in greater numbers. Her comments came on Saturday during her first visit to the Holocaust Centre, accompanied by […]
Conference & Committee
Interested in finding out how to campaign against mass murder, rape & pillage in Darfur. Want to help prevent the reoccurrence of genocide elsewhere? Aegis Students warmly invites you to attend its annual summer conference, taking place at the Cass Business School, C.London on September 5th 2007. Aegis Students is an exciting student movement that […]
Khartoum apologists – ‘Don’t exaggerate; only 200,000 murdered in Darfur’
Comment by Dr James Smith, CEO Aegis Trust, 21 Aug 07 – The British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) recently ruled on a complaint against the Save Darfur Coalition and Aegis Trust regarding how the death toll in Darfur has been represented. ASA identified a ‘division of informed opinion’ on the mortality in Darfur and stated […]
Summer Conference 2007
Interested in finding out how to campaign against mass murder, rape & pillage in Darfur. Want to help prevent the reoccurrence of genocide elsewhere? Aegis Students warmly invites you to attend its annual summer conference, taking place at the University of Derby on September 17th 2007. Aegis Students is an exciting student movement that aims […]
National Executive Committee Vacancies
We hope you are all having a fantastic summer. The growth of Aegis Students has been immense this last year. There are now eleven functioning societies and many more in early stages of development, bringing about the need for a larger National Executive Committee to coordinate the student movement in this coming academic year. The […]
News from Nottingham Trent University – June 2007
Survivors to speak every weekend at Holocaust Centre
10 May 07 – For the first time since opening, the Holocaust Centre (situated between Laxton and Ollerton, in north Notts) is running a full summer of weekend talks by survivors of Nazi concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Belsen. Every Saturday and Sunday, from now to the end of September, members of the public […]