Perth and Kinross Council – Social media post – HMD 2025
Activity information
Activity type: Social media activity
Organisation name: Perth and Kinross Council
Website: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/J9C567B3HZ3wKKe6?ref=Link
Address:
2 High Street ,
perth
scotland
PH1 5PH
United Kingdom
We created a sway that was sent around all Perth and Kinross Council Staff to give facts and information that Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) takes place every year on 27 January, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. It is an 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 in genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. It is an occasion for everyone to come together to learn, remember and reflect.
Every year, a theme is selected for HMD and this year it is Ordinary People. Ordinary people were involved in all aspects of the Holocaust. The theme this year highlights the ordinary people who let genocide happen, the ordinary people who actively perpetrated genocide, and the ordinary people who were persecuted. The theme will also prompt us to consider how ordinary people, such as ourselves, can perhaps play a bigger part than we might imagine in challenging prejudice today.
Perth & Kinross council pledge to strengthen our efforts to promote education and research about the Holocaust and other genocide.
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