The King and Queen Consort made a gesture to remember those who suffered ‘such horrors’ during the Holocaust. Candles were lit at Buckingham Palace to mark Holocaust Memorial Day which falls on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The King and Queen Consort made a gesture today to remember those who suffered ‘such horrors’ during the Holocaust.
The King said: ‘I hope this will be one way of trying to remember all those poor people who had to suffer such horrors for so many years – and still do.’ His Jewish dad died in a separate camp in 1945, and his mum died from an infection during childbirth in 1942. The day is further used to remember the millions killed in other genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur
‘Lighting a candle publicly is a marker that makes it hard for tyrants and state criminals to perpetuate their mass crimes quietly.’
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