Holocaust Memorial Day: MPs Josh Dean, Chris Vince and Chris Hinchliff commemorate 80th anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
The three Labour MPs who represent Indie readers at Westminster have marked Holocaust Memorial Day (Monday, January 27).
The date commemorates the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945.
Groups and individuals across the country remember the six million Jewish men, women and children murdered in the Holocaust by the Nazis and their collaborators.
The event also honours victims of other acts of Nazi persecution and of subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur, west Sudan.
The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust’s theme for 2025 is “For a Better Future”.
North East Herts MP Chris Hinchliff, whose constituency includes the A120 villages of Little Hadham, Braughing, Standon and Puckeridge, said: “Today, on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps in Europe, we honour those murdered during the Holocaust and pay tribute to the extraordinary survivors.
“I’ve signed the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Book of Commitment to mark this important day.”
Harlow MP Chris Vince, whose constituency includes the Hallingburys, Hatfield Broad Oak, Hatfield Heath, Sheering, Lower Sheering and Matching, attended a Holocaust memorial event and said: “Hearing testimony from those who survived it will stick with me for life.
“They are right – their response is their survival, it is their children, it is their grandchildren.”
Josh Dean, the MP for Hertford and Stortford, said: “On this solemn anniversary, we reflect on the horrors of the Holocaust and the devastation that hatred, bigotry and prejudice can lead to.
“In Parliament, I signed the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Commitment, honouring the memory of the six million Jewish people murdered in the Holocaust and paying tribute to the extraordinary survivors who educate young people today.
“Through remembrance and education, we reaffirm our collective responsibility to confront the evil of antisemitism, intolerance and hatred.”
