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Holocaust Memorial Day 2021

  • Submitted by: Alexander Stewart, Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.
  • Date lodged: Monday, 25 January 2021
  • Motion reference: S5M-23956

That the Parliament acknowledges Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) on 27 January 2021; notes that HMD was established in 2000 and is marked each year on 27 January, which is the anniversary date of the liberation of the Nazi concentration and death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau; acknowledges that, around this day, schools, communities and faith groups across the UK join together in national and local events to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and of more recent genocides across the world, such as Bosnia, Cambodia, Darfur and Rwanda, and that this is an opportunity to consider the contemporary relevance of the Holocaust; notes that the day is co-ordinated by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, which was founded in 2005; further notes that, as the Holocaust Educational Trust marks HMD 2021, it encourages reflection on Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, and of the legacy of Holocaust survivors and of educating the next generation to carry these stories forward; acknowledges the HMD 2021 theme, Be the Light in the Darkness, and considers that, for most, the story of the Holocaust was not the story of successful resistance or rescue, or of survival, and that justice was not served.


Supported by: Clare Adamson, Jackie Baillie, Jeremy Balfour, Michelle Ballantyne, Neil Bibby, Miles Briggs, Donald Cameron, Jackson Carlaw, Peter Chapman, Alex Cole-Hamilton, Maurice Corry, Bob Doris, Annabelle Ewing, Murdo Fraser, Kenneth Gibson, Maurice Golden, Iain Gray, Jamie Greene, Alison Harris, James Kelly, Liam Kerr, Bill Kidd, Johann Lamont, Monica Lennon, Richard Lyle, Fulton MacGregor, Ruth Maguire, Gillian Martin, John Mason, Joan McAlpine, Liam McArthur, Mark McDonald, Stuart McMillan, Pauline McNeill, Margaret Mitchell, Edward Mountain, Liz Smith, Colin Smyth, Stewart Stevenson, Adam Tomkins, David Torrance, Annie Wells, Sandra White, Andy Wightman