Holocaust Memorial Day
Tonight is Holocaust Memorial Day, which takes place on January 27th each year, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945.
Bury marks the day with its own annual Holocaust Memorial service. This year’s takes place at the Elizabethan Suite at the Town Hall. This is always an important event of course, but perhaps even more poignant this year given the ongoing problems in the Middle East. I will be there together with lots of Council colleagues and others. It is always nice to see the involvement of lots of Bury’s young people in the commemoration, and I’m sure that they will once again do the Borough proud tonight.
It’s a ticket-only event, but there are numerous smaller events going on around the place today, and of course time for personal reflections on the Holocaust and the need to do everything that we can to make sure that genocide and ethnic cleansing stop happening and never happen in the world again.
Rick
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