PR 117
11 January 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Town Hall chaplain Peter Paine will lead a service and wreath laying ceremony on January 27 to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
In 1999 the Government proposed that January 27 should become the date when each year communities remembered the victims of the World War ll Holocaust.
It became an annual event in several towns and cities the following year with Great Yarmouth offering the Borough’s citizens the opportunity to mark the day from 2001.
Holocaust Memorial Day remembers the suffering of Jews, Roma and Sinti (gypsies), black people, Slavs and disabled people who, with many others, were the victims of the Nazi Holocaust which imprisoned, tortured and committed genocide.
January 27 is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, in 1945 by Russia’s Red Army. It is estimated that up to 1.5 million people died in Auschwitz and its satellite camps.
In Great Yarmouth a service will be held at Kitchener Road Jewish Cemetery at 11am. The Deputy Mayor Councillor Mike Taylor will lay a wreath on behalf of the Mayor and Borough Council.
The public are invited to attend the service or to pay a private visit to Kitchener Road and the town’s other two Jewish cemeteries at Blackfriar’s Road and Caister. They will be open from 7.30am to 4pm.
For further information contact the Mayor’s Secretary Laura Goodman on 01493 846125.
Issued by:
Liz Dann
Press Officer
01493 846513