Date published: 2024-01-12 | Category: Equalities, Communities and volunteering, Focusing on prevention, Bath
A special ceremony to mark the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, is taking place in Bath on January 25.
The event to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 is being organised by Bath & North East Somerset Council in partnership with Bath Interfaith Group.
Holocaust Memorial Day takes place on January 27 each year and remembers the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi persecution of other groups and in more recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
The commemoration is co-ordinated nationally by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and this year has the theme ‘Fragility of Freedom.’
The Fragility of Freedom event in Bath will take place at the Guildhall at 5.45pm on Thursday January 25 and is open to all.
Councillor Sarah Moore, Chair of the Council, said: “Today, many people in western democracies take freedoms for granted. This Holocaust Memorial Day, we can reflect on how these freedoms need to be valued, and on how many people around the world face restrictions to their freedoms to live, worship, work and love freely. Holocaust Memorial Day is a day for everyone and is a time for us all to remember and learn from the events of the past and the present. It is an opportunity to try and bring our communities together to remember our common humanity.”
Invited guests at the event will deliver poems, music, and reflections on Holocaust Memorial Day following an opening address by Councillor Sarah Moore.
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Places are limited at the event and booking is essential. For alternative ways of booking or queries, please email Equality@bathnes.gov.uk or call Council Connect on 01225 39 40 41.
At 8pm on January 27, there will be a Light The Darkness national moment to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. People across the nation are invited to light candles and put them safely in their window to remember those who were murdered for who they were and stand against prejudice and hatred today.
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