Published:
10:53 AM January 26, 2021
Last year s Holocaust Memorial Day service at St Albans Cathedral marked 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz
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An online service is to be held tomorrow (Wednesday, January 27) to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day.
Holocaust Memorial Day, which is marked on January 27 every year, remembers the six million Jews who lost their lives during the Second World War, as well as millions of others who lost their lives due to Nazi persecution. January 27 also marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945.
Holocaust Memorial Day is to be commemorated virtually tomorrow, January 27.
The Mayor of St Albans will host an online service to commemorate the Holocaust Memorial Day. Organised by St Albans United Synagogue, in partnership with the district council, residents can join the online Zoom service next Wednesday (January 27) from 7pm. And Mayor Janet Smith will host the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945, with this year’s theme being ‘be the light in the darkness’. There will be a video to highlight the horrors of the Holocaust and later genocides as well as a talk by principal guest Francois Robertson, a Holocaust survivor who fled Brussels with her parents to escape the Nazis.