REDDITCH residents can take part in this year’s events to remember people killed in the Holocaust and genocides worldwide.
From Monday, January 23, a Holocaust Luggage Tag Project will invite people to hang their own thoughts and messages on a tree in Redditch Library.
Holocaust Memorial Day on Friday, January 27 will see local schools and groups taking part in events which are being co-ordinated by Redditch Borough Council’s Holocaust Memorial Steering Group.
Cllr Peter Fleming, chair of the steering group, said: “Once again Redditch comes together to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
“This year we have an interactive luggage tag exhibit, and we can all take part.
“A luggage tag is such an ordinary object, and it aims to prompt us to reflect that any genocide, especially on the horrific scale of the Holocaust, must involve lots of ordinary people.
“The ordinary people who let it happen, the ordinary people who actively perpetrated it, and the ordinary people who were persecuted.
“It’s an important, sobering message that reminds us why it matters to remember the lessons of the past, together as a community, so we never allow it to happen again.”
On Saturday, January 28, a civic event will be held at the Town Hall at 10.15am where a short procession will start at 10.30am to the Holocaust Marker on Church Green.
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