People are urged to pause to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

‘Be the light in the darkness’ is this year’s theme for Holocaust Memorial Day, when the world remembers the six million Jews who were killed under Nazi persecution, alongside millions of others.

The day takes place every year on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, and also remembers those who lost their lives in genocides which followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

Councillor Cathal Mallaghan said: “More than seven decades have passed since Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated.

“While those who survived to bear witness to the horror of what happened in that death camp, and in many others, are fewer in number now, the passage of time has not diminished their suffering, nor the impact on our international community: this genocide and the others which have followed have left a permanent scar.

“We all have a responsibility to remember and, as the theme this year reminds us, to reflect on how darkness can so quickly descend and how our collective actions against persecution in all its forms, from hatred to misinformation, bring light to that darkness”.

A Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration event will be held online on 2021 and you can register online to attend: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/holocaust-memorial-day-2021-tickets-130788236135

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