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Derby Telegraph, UK
Dec 13 2014
Derby to host candle-lighting ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of
Auschwitz liberation
By Derby Telegraph
DERBY has been chosen as one of the sites for a special
candle-lighting ceremony to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the
liberation of Auschwitz.
The city was picked from hundreds of applications from across the
country to play host to one of 70 specially created candles.
The candle will be lit three times in the city on January 27; first at
the Bosnia-Herzegovina Centre, in Curzon Street, then at Derby
Cathedral in Iron Gate, before the final lighting, which will be held
at Quad.
Holocaust Memorial Day is a national day of remembrance for the
millions of people murdered in the Holocaust under Nazi persecution
and in the subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and
Darfur.
In Derby, there are a number of events held each year including a
stone-setting ceremony, a Jewish tradition in which small stones are
laid to signify the lives of those lost through genocide throughout
the world.
The white stones were laid at the base of trees dedicated to Olga
Nahlak and Anne Frank, close to the Bridge Chapel, in Sowter Road.
Speaking on behalf of the Working Group, Anne Johns said: "Holocaust
Memorial Day is an important focal point in the year and we are
delighted to have been selected to be part of this nationwide
commemoration.
"It is vital that we remember and reflect upon the horrors of the
past, and honour those who survived."
Next year's event marks not only the 70th anniversary of the
liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau but also 20 years since the genocide
in Srebrenica in Bosnia.
The candle will be lit for the first time at 4.30pm by a member of
Derby's Bosnian community who lost family in the Srebrenica massacre.
The cathedral lighting will be by a representative from the Armenian
community, commemorating the Armenian massacre which happened 100
years ago.
At Quad it will be lit by Judy Sherwood, whose grandmother died in
Auschwitz, and will represent the Derby Jewish Women's Group.
The lightings are part of a week-long series of events organised by
the Derby Holocaust Memorial Day Working Group.
All the Derby events will be open to the public and more details will
be released closer to the anniversary itself.
The special candles will also be lit, simultaneously with Derby's
first lighting, at a national commemorative event in central London
and at Auschwitz, as part of international commemorations taking place
on January 27.
Olivia Marks-Woldman, chief executive of the Holocaust Memorial Day
Trust, said: "Our designer has created a beautiful candle to mark
Holocaust Memorial Day on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of
Auschwitz.
"When all 70 of their candles are lit throughout the country, it will
be a poignant moment of remembrance and a time for us all to ensure we
keep the memory alive."
For more information about Holocaust Memorial Day and the events
taking place across the country, visit the group's website,
www.hmd.org.uk or follow the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust on Twitter
@hmd_UK #hmd2015.
In 2001, January 27 - the date on which Auschwitz, the largest Nazi
death camp, was liberated by the Allies - was established as Holocaust
Memorial Day (HMD), but the commemorations extend to the many
officially recognised genocides that have occurred since.
At first, the Germans held Polish political prisoners in the camp.
>From the spring of 1942, Auschwitz became the largest site for the
murder of Jews brought there under the Nazi plan for their
extermination.
More than 1,100,000 men, women, and children lost their lives at the
camp with one in six Jews killed in the Holocaust died at Auschwitz.
During the course of the war, the camp was staffed by about 7,000
members of the SS, approximately 15% of whom were later convicted of
war crimes.
In Derby, the victims of the Holodomor, Stalin's systematic starving
to death of more than 7 million Ukrainians between 1932-33, are also
remembered.
http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/Holocaust-memorial-Derby-host-candle-ceremonies/story-25611146-detail/story.html
Dec 13 2014
Derby to host candle-lighting ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of
Auschwitz liberation
By Derby Telegraph
DERBY has been chosen as one of the sites for a special
candle-lighting ceremony to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the
liberation of Auschwitz.
The city was picked from hundreds of applications from across the
country to play host to one of 70 specially created candles.
The candle will be lit three times in the city on January 27; first at
the Bosnia-Herzegovina Centre, in Curzon Street, then at Derby
Cathedral in Iron Gate, before the final lighting, which will be held
at Quad.
Holocaust Memorial Day is a national day of remembrance for the
millions of people murdered in the Holocaust under Nazi persecution
and in the subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and
Darfur.
In Derby, there are a number of events held each year including a
stone-setting ceremony, a Jewish tradition in which small stones are
laid to signify the lives of those lost through genocide throughout
the world.
The white stones were laid at the base of trees dedicated to Olga
Nahlak and Anne Frank, close to the Bridge Chapel, in Sowter Road.
Speaking on behalf of the Working Group, Anne Johns said: "Holocaust
Memorial Day is an important focal point in the year and we are
delighted to have been selected to be part of this nationwide
commemoration.
"It is vital that we remember and reflect upon the horrors of the
past, and honour those who survived."
Next year's event marks not only the 70th anniversary of the
liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau but also 20 years since the genocide
in Srebrenica in Bosnia.
The candle will be lit for the first time at 4.30pm by a member of
Derby's Bosnian community who lost family in the Srebrenica massacre.
The cathedral lighting will be by a representative from the Armenian
community, commemorating the Armenian massacre which happened 100
years ago.
At Quad it will be lit by Judy Sherwood, whose grandmother died in
Auschwitz, and will represent the Derby Jewish Women's Group.
The lightings are part of a week-long series of events organised by
the Derby Holocaust Memorial Day Working Group.
All the Derby events will be open to the public and more details will
be released closer to the anniversary itself.
The special candles will also be lit, simultaneously with Derby's
first lighting, at a national commemorative event in central London
and at Auschwitz, as part of international commemorations taking place
on January 27.
Olivia Marks-Woldman, chief executive of the Holocaust Memorial Day
Trust, said: "Our designer has created a beautiful candle to mark
Holocaust Memorial Day on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of
Auschwitz.
"When all 70 of their candles are lit throughout the country, it will
be a poignant moment of remembrance and a time for us all to ensure we
keep the memory alive."
For more information about Holocaust Memorial Day and the events
taking place across the country, visit the group's website,
www.hmd.org.uk or follow the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust on Twitter
@hmd_UK #hmd2015.
In 2001, January 27 - the date on which Auschwitz, the largest Nazi
death camp, was liberated by the Allies - was established as Holocaust
Memorial Day (HMD), but the commemorations extend to the many
officially recognised genocides that have occurred since.
At first, the Germans held Polish political prisoners in the camp.
>From the spring of 1942, Auschwitz became the largest site for the
murder of Jews brought there under the Nazi plan for their
extermination.
More than 1,100,000 men, women, and children lost their lives at the
camp with one in six Jews killed in the Holocaust died at Auschwitz.
During the course of the war, the camp was staffed by about 7,000
members of the SS, approximately 15% of whom were later convicted of
war crimes.
In Derby, the victims of the Holodomor, Stalin's systematic starving
to death of more than 7 million Ukrainians between 1932-33, are also
remembered.
http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/Holocaust-memorial-Derby-host-candle-ceremonies/story-25611146-detail/story.html