Kim Simon - formerly Managing Director of the USC Shoah Foundation - has passed away following a battle with Multiple System Atrophy, a rare degenerative disease. “We are heartbroken that Kim Simon is no longer with us,” says Aegis CEO Dr James Smith. “Kim was a dedicated and brilliant partner and colleague of the Aegis [...]
A three-day Youth Champions workshop on Peace and Values Education was held by Aegis at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in the first week of February, bringing together 25 young people from Kigali and its surroundings. They acquired knowledge about the path to violence, the path to peace, advocacy, being an upstander, leadership, project development, gender [...]
Jo Ingabire’s BAFTA-nominated short BAZIGAGA is a fictional drama about a pastor and his daughter seeking refuge with a traditional healer during the Genocide against the Tutsi, which Jo herself survived as a young child. Bazigaga, the eponymous heroine, keeps the Interahamwe militia from her door by playing on their superstitions that she may be [...]
“Peace is really important, isn’t it? If there’s no peace, we can’t come to school. That’s why the team from Aegis came to educate us.” It’s a hot day in late January as the Principal of Lycée Barthélémy Boganda, a school in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, addresses 2,000 students about to take [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhPNN1ffSvM Today, on the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, dignitaries and survivors of the Genocide against the Tutsi gathered at the Kigali Genocide Memorial to commemorate the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, to honour all victims of Nazi persecution, and to remember all whose lives have been destroyed through genocide [...]
James Smith, CEO Aegis Trust On the eve of International Holocaust Memorial Day, Rwandan students gathered at the Kigali Genocide Memorial to take part in a conversation with Holocaust survivor Emil Fish, listening to his testimony and asking questions about his experience (click here to watch the full conversation). Emil was welcomed by [...]
99% of the people who committed murders in the Holocaust were never prosecuted or even questioned. Why? David Wilkinson’s critically acclaimed feature documentary ’Getting Away with Murder(s)’, a co-production with the Aegis Trust, digs deep to find the answers. Recently featured in The Times of Israel and the Jewish Chronicle, it will be broadcast on [...]
On 17 January, Aegis hosted Rwanda’s first national research-based dialogue at the Kigali Genocide Memorial on the theme ‘Post-genocide identity perspectives in Rwanda’. Staged as part of the Action for Sustainable Peace, Inclusion, Rights & Equality (ASPIRE) programme, the dialogue enabled researchers who are studying peacebuilding and genocide prevention to share their evidence-based findings and [...]
Rwanda’s High Commissioner to the UK, Johnston Busingye last week visited the UK National Holocaust Centre - birthplace of the Aegis Trust, which collaborated with Rwandan authorities to establish the Kigali Genocide Memorial, the final resting-place for 250,000 victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, in 2004. Aegis Trust continues to run the Memorial [...]
https://youtu.be/F3s1y40TXlE In the video above, Aegis CEO Dr James Smith introduces ‘Reverse the Ramraid’ - a campaign you can support to save lives through peace education with the Aegis Trust in the Central African Republic. Aegis CEO Dr James Smith will run in the Newark Showground Christmas Challenge 2022 to raise funds [...]
