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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Richard Ault & Ellie Kemp

Light a virtual candle for the victims of genocide on Holocaust Memorial Day

People across Greater Manchester will stand alongside our area’s Jewish community to remember victims of genocide on Holocaust Memorial Day.

Friday, January 27 is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp - and a poignant day to remember the six million Jews murdered during the holocaust, alongside millions of people from other groups persecuted by the Nazis. But Holocaust Memorial Day is also a time to commemorate people killed in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.

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