Holocaust Memorial Day 2022: UK remembers victims of genocide

Jan 27, 2022 by Jill

by Megan Hinton, LBC:

Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) takes place each year on 27 January.

Today marks Holocaust Memorial Day, where people across the world come together to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust.

It is also used as a day to remember the millions killed in subsequent genocides since the Holocaust including in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

At 8pm, people across the UK are being asked to “Light the Darkness” by lighting candles and safely putting them in their windows to remember those “who were murdered for who they were” and to “stand against prejudice and hatred today”.

Sir Lloyd Dorfman, a trustee of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation – which is behind a proposed memorial next to the Houses of Parliament – this morning gave LBC an update on the “wonderful project… which would be the most prestigious location of any holocaust centre in the world”.

He told Nick Ferrari: “We have received planning permission, regrettably there is a small group of people who are trying to stop it and who have managed to engineer a judicial review which I believe is being heard in the next four to six weeks and that’s really sad.”

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