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Holocaust Memorial Day was created on 27 January 2000, when representatives from 46 governments around the world met in Stockholm to discuss Holocaust education, remembrance and research.

On 27 January, Wales marked Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 with a National Service of Commemoration in Cardiff City Hall.

Holocaust Memorial Day 2017 was marked in Wales at the National Service of Commemoration at Cardiff City Hall on Friday 27 January.

On 26 January, people from across Wales came together to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) at a poignant ceremony in Cardiff. Watch the ceremony here.

Sir Nicholas Winton was born in Hampstead, London in 1909. For nine months in 1939 he rescued 669 children from Czechoslovakia, bringing them to the UK, thereby sparing them from the horrors of the Holocaust. Sir Nicholas died in July 2015, aged 106.