Portraits of seven of the UK’s last remaining Holocaust survivors have gone on display at the Queen’s Gallery to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day [27 January].
The Prince of Wales, who commissioned them, said they were a living memorial to the six million people “whose stories will never be told, whose portraits will never be painted”.
A ceremony was streamed online to commemorate the victims.
People were asked to leave a lighted candle in their window in remembrance.
Around the UK, landmark buildings including the London Eye, Edinburgh Castle, Cardiff Castle and the Titanic museum in Belfast were illuminated in purple, the colour of Holocaust Memorial Day.
Prince Charles said he commissioned the portraits as an enduring reminder of the horrors of the Nazi regime in World War Two and in tribute to the Jewish refugees who made their home in Britain.
Full article on the BBC website
Recommended by Margaret Stevenson-Wight who says: “I walked through both Dachau and Bergen Belsen concentration camps in Germany during the cold war years — and still this many years later cannot in any way comprehend the scope of man’s inhumanity to man.”
Like Margaret, I also visited the concentration camps of Mauthausen in Austria, and Auschwitz in Poland during the 1970s. For the baby boomers the war was very recent and we all had family members who had served overseas fighting fascism, but to actually see such places where such evil was carried out was chilling. I wish we had been taught in school during the sixties about the existence of psychopaths, sociopaths, and narcissists. We would have been forewarned for encounters with such people during our lives. Today everyone is aware of such types of people.
One thing I know now is that never again should any ‘young leaders’ graduates of the WEF ever be allowed to achieve any public office in NZ or anywhere else. The social
and economic damage these people have done to their countries in incalculable.
Waikanae Watch should not go anywhere near the holocaust subject.
Lets look at the Bolshevik massacre of the Russian Orthodox Christians
The Armenian massacre. Christian?
The massacre of the Palestinians.