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Sunday 27 January 2013

Holocaust Memorial Day 2013


Education Scotland are high-lighting the need to educate younger generations about the genocide in Europe in the middle of the 20th century and other genocides here - long before many of today's youngsters were born, emphasising the need not to forget what can so easily go wrong in sophisticated modern societies.

- Never Again -

In the UK, today 27th January is Holocaust Memorial Day, the date being chosen to commemorate the day that Auschwitz Concentration Camp was liberated in 1945; visit the dedicated website, or visit the website of Yad Vashem.

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