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‘We will come together to show that we continue to challenge hatred in whatever form it occurs’
Hull City Hall, above, is among the buildings lit purple to mark Holocaust Memorial Day(Image: Hull City Council)
Some of Hull’s most well known buildings are to be lit purple to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
- Holocaust Memorial Day is held on January 27 each year to commemorate the Jewish men, women and children who were killed during the Holocaust. It is held on this day to mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
- Hull City Council will illuminate city centre buildings in purple light from dusk next Tuesday. The council said that those who have died in more recent genocides will also be remembered.
- The Leader of Hull City Council, Councillor Mike Ross, said: “Through Holocaust Memorial Day, we will come together to show that we continue to challenge hatred in whatever form it occurs. This year’s HMD theme is ‘Bridging Generations’, which is a reminder that the responsibility of remembrance doesn’t end with the survivors. It lives on through their children, grandchildren, and ultimately through all of us. The theme asks us to engage actively with the past, to learn from the division created by the Nazis, which culminated in the atrocities they inflicted on innocent people.”
- To find out more about HMD, including how to mark it at home by lighting a candle, visit Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | Light the darkness.
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