Stockport marks Holocaust Memorial Day

Holocaust Memorial Day is the international day to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi persecution of other groups and during other genocides elsewhere across the globe.

This year’s Holocaust Memorial Day marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Libraries across Stockport will be creating book displays with information on the Holocaust and will be displaying information to provide customers with information about Holocaust Memorial Day. People will also be able to access the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust website www.hmd.org.uk - to learn more about the Holocaust and the Trust, via the free PCs available in every library.

A private civic commemoration also took place on Sunday 26 January.

(Picture credit: Holocaust Memorial Day Trust)