Holocaust Memorial Day
27/1/2012
The TUC, which URTU is an affiliated member, is calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on today's Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD).
HMD is held on the 27 January every year on the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, where 1.6 million men, women and children were killed in the Holocaust.
The day aims to remind people of the crimes, racism and loss of life during the Holocaust in World War II and prevent it ever being forgotten or repeated. It also remembers more recent genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur, and has been held annually in the UK since 2001.
Alongside the six million Jewish victims of Nazi persecution, hundreds of thousands of others were targeted by Hitler's regime, including union members, lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people, disabled people, and people attacked simply for their race.
