Holocaust Memorial Day to be Marked on 27 January 2022
- Submitted by: Jackson Carlaw, Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 December 2021
- Motion reference: S6M-02600
- Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, 26 January 2022
That the Parliament reflects on the horrors of the Holocaust; believes that it is important to impart the lessons of this despicable event to each generation so that everyone is instilled with an ethos of tolerance and respect for all, irrespective of background; recognises that the Holocaust was the systematic attempt to murder all Jewish people living in Europe from 1941 to 1945; acknowledges that the Holocaust resulted in 6 million Jewish men, women and children being murdered in concentration and extermination camps and in ghettos and mass shootings; notes that Holocaust Memorial Day will take place on 27 January 2022 and that its theme will be “One Day”; understands that this theme, which can be interpreted in many different ways, has been chosen with the general aim that for the One Day of 27 January, people will come together to learn about and reflect on the horrors of the Holocaust and other genocides that took place in the years following 1945, in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur; further understands that underpinning the theme is the hope that, by educating others about past genocides, it will be possible to look forward to a future One Day where there is no genocide; agrees that the Holocaust is an incredibly dark chapter in human history and that the Memorial Day held on 27 January is an important opportunity to reinforce the necessity of striving to ensure that One Day, genocides will become a thing of the past.
Supported by:
Karen Adam, Clare Adamson, Jeremy Balfour, Colin Beattie, Neil Bibby, Miles Briggs, Alexander Burnett, Stephanie Callaghan, Donald Cameron, Finlay Carson, Maggie Chapman, Foysol Choudhury, Alex Cole-Hamilton, Natalie Don, Sharon Dowey, Pam Duncan-Glancy, Annabelle Ewing, Fergus Ewing, Jim Fairlie, Russell Findlay, Murdo Fraser, Meghan Gallacher, Kenneth Gibson, Maurice Golden, Pam Gosal, Jamie Greene, Dr. Sandesh Gulhane, Jamie Halcro Johnston, Rachael Hamilton, Emma Harper, Craig Hoy, Liam Kerr, Stephen Kerr, Bill Kidd, Monica Lennon, Richard Leonard, Dean Lockhart, Douglas Lumsden, Michael Marra, John Mason, Paul McLennan, Stuart McMillan, Edward Mountain, Oliver Mundell, Paul O'Kane, Douglas Ross, Alex Rowley, Graham Simpson, Liz Smith, Collette Stevenson, Alexander Stewart, Kaukab Stewart, Paul Sweeney, Mercedes Villalba, Sue Webber, Annie Wells, Tess White, Martin Whitfield, Brian Whittle, Beatrice Wishart