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Holocaust Memorial Day Trust welcomes the UN resolution designating an annual Holocaust Memorial Day
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London, 2 November 2005
Chair of Holocaust Memorial Day Trust Urges UN to Apply Lessons of the Holocaust in Practice
In response to the UN’s General Assembly passing a resolution designating 27th January as the annual Holocaust Memorial Day, Stephen Smith, Chair of the UK’s Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, issued the following statement:
“The HMD Trust welcomes the announcement that the UN has recognised the importance of the Holocaust and its salutary lesson.
Holocaust Memorial Day will give an annual opportunity for the nations of the world to remember and reflect.
Hopefully, the UN will also be resolved in exercising its will in preventing the repetition of genocide in Darfur. There is no more meaningful act of memorial than applying the lessons of the Holocaust in practice.
In the United Kingdom we have been marking Holocaust Memorial Day annually since 2001. The Day provides an opportunity to commemorate all those who were victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution, and provides a focus – through the national event and local events and activities for people to think about the continuing – implications of racism and intolerance that are manifest in society today.
The UK 2006 event will take place in Cardiff on Thursday 26th January (to respect the Jewish Sabbath, as the 27th falls on a Friday). The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2006 is One Person Can Make a Difference.
In January of this year, there were over nine hundred HMD events across Britain, and we expect at least as many in 2006.”
