Remember Together Project – British Future
Students at Eden Girls’ School Waltham Forest are bringing new meaning to Remembrance this year by uncovering the stories of WW2 contribution from within their own community.
The Remember Together project underlines how commemorating this shared history can help bring people from different backgrounds together. It also aims to address the lack of public awareness of the black, Asian and Muslim contributions to the Second World War. Over 2.5 million soldiers from pre-partition India – what is now India, Pakistan and Bangladesh – served alongside servicemen and women from Africa, the Caribbean and other commonwealth nations.
The Year Nine students appealed to the local community to share their family stories of relatives who served in the Second World War. They then became historians themselves, interviewing the descendants of these WW2 veterans and documenting their stories here on the school website.
The school is working on the Remember Together project with British Future – a charity working for a confident, fair and inclusive Britain. More information about the wider project can be found at www.remembertogether.uk
Henry Braimah
Faz Alam
Mir Sultan Khan
Shere Muhammad
Mahmoud Bachir Bouiadjera