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.