Thought for the Week: Keep the memory alive

Ian Kirk-Smith reflects on Holocaust Memorial Day

by Ian Kirk-Smith 23rd January 2015

The 27 January is the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Holocaust Memorial Day, held annually on this day, will be commemorated in homes, schools and communities both nationally and internationally. This year the theme is ‘Keep the memory alive’.

Holocaust Memorial Day is a day when people can pause to remember the millions who have been murdered or whose lives were changed beyond recognition during the Holocaust/Shoah. The Day is also dedicated to the memory of those killed in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. 2015 is the twentieth anniversary of the massacre in Srebrenica.