Holocaust Memorial Day
Today is the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp and is commemorated as Holocaust Memorial Day, on which we remember the Shoah (the murder of nearly six million Jewish men, women and children by the Nazis) and the other victims of the Nazi holocaust.
To describe just the ten largest groups of other victims, listed in order of the number of people murdered by the Nazis, the victims of the holocaust included Jews, Soviet/Russian POWs and civilians, Poles, Serbs, People with disabilities, Gypsies, Freemasons, Slovenes, political and religious opponents of Nazism, gay people, and too many other racial, religious, political or social groups to list.
Today we remember all those victims as well as those in other genocides such as those in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
Speaking at a national commemoration of the event today, in Westminster Central Hall, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said:
“I feel a deep sense of shame that here in Britain in 2020 we seem to be dealing with a resurgence of the virus of anti-Semitism, and I know that I carry a responsibility as Prime Minister to do everything possible to stamp it out.”
Vowing to ensure the memory of the horrors of the Holocaust will not be forgotten, he promised that a national Holocaust memorial and education centre will be built
“so that future generations can never doubt what happened”.
He added: “Because that is the only way we can be certain that it will never happen again.”
The UK government also announced today that it is making a £1m donation to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation to help preserve the site and ensure the Holocaust is never forgotten.
You can can read more about Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 here.
We must never forget what happened. We must work to stop such events from happening again.
To describe just the ten largest groups of other victims, listed in order of the number of people murdered by the Nazis, the victims of the holocaust included Jews, Soviet/Russian POWs and civilians, Poles, Serbs, People with disabilities, Gypsies, Freemasons, Slovenes, political and religious opponents of Nazism, gay people, and too many other racial, religious, political or social groups to list.
Today we remember all those victims as well as those in other genocides such as those in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
Speaking at a national commemoration of the event today, in Westminster Central Hall, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said:
“I feel a deep sense of shame that here in Britain in 2020 we seem to be dealing with a resurgence of the virus of anti-Semitism, and I know that I carry a responsibility as Prime Minister to do everything possible to stamp it out.”
Vowing to ensure the memory of the horrors of the Holocaust will not be forgotten, he promised that a national Holocaust memorial and education centre will be built
“so that future generations can never doubt what happened”.
He added: “Because that is the only way we can be certain that it will never happen again.”
The UK government also announced today that it is making a £1m donation to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation to help preserve the site and ensure the Holocaust is never forgotten.
You can can read more about Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 here.
We must never forget what happened. We must work to stop such events from happening again.
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