The design competition is underway and the memorial should be completed within a couple of years. The British Government has since announced that it will be built right next to The Houses of Parliament by the River Thames. One of their main recommendations was that a new Holocaust Memorial should be created. I was with him and the members of the Commission when they met at Yad Vashem in April 2014. The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, whose patron is HRH The Prince of Wales, has chosen as its theme for this year – How can life go on? They will ask audiences to think about what happens after genocide and our own responsibilities in the wake of such a crime.ĭavid Cameron, when he was Prime Minister, launched the UK Holocaust Commission to ensure the preservation of the memory. In 2016, around 6,000 different events took place across the UK. In the UK, Holocaust Memorial Day has been marked each year since 2001. The responsibility becomes even greater for all of us – governments, civil society, individuals – to preserve the memory. It was a stark, terrible reminder of the continuing human cost of the worst crime in history.Īs time passes, there are fewer survivors. But now, with time for reflection and perhaps some loneliness, the memories of that terrible time – of family members lost and lives devastated - had come flooding back. In her youth, as she came to Israel and built a family, a home and a country, she had been able to contain those memories and look to the future. A lady in her 90s who had lived through the Holocaust in Romania told me how, in old age, the memories had got worse. I spoke to several survivors that day, but one conversation really stuck with me. I was visiting Cafe Britannia, a meeting place for Holocaust survivors, in Eshkol Regional Council. One of the most distressing conversations I have had in my time in Israel was in my first couple of weeks. I would like to thank the leadership and staff of the centre and Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked. I am very proud to be here at the Massuah Institute for the Study of the Holocaust on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. David Quarrey, British Ambassador to Israel said:
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