Each year, on 27th January, the day the largest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated in 1945 by the USSR’s Red Army, countries around the world remember the millions who died during the Holocaust, and the millions who have died in subsequent genocides. And each year community groups across Peterborough come together in the annual civic commemoration for Holocaust Memorial Day in St John’s.
The service of commemoration will be at 12 noon on Thursday 26th January in St John’s, and this year’s theme is’Ordinary People’. Representatives of our faith communities across the city will gather followed by the laying of a wreath in St John’s Square. There is also a free evening event at 6.30pm with music, poems, and readings from community groups, and featuring Bedazzle Arts, High Heritage, YT Academy and Kat Beeton, Poet Laureate for Peterborough. Refreshments after both events and all welcome.