Honouring Holocaust Memorial Day

The Mayor of Hertsmere, Councillor John Graham, led a poignant candlelit parade and ceremony to mark Holocaust Memorial Day in January.

The candlelit parade travelled from the car park of Radlett Train Station, along Watling Street to The Radlett Centre, where a ceremony took place which included a first-hand personal account from Dzemal Paratusic, a Bosnian genocide survivor about his experiences.

The event was held to remember the millions of people who have been murdered or whose lives have been changed beyond recognition during the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution and in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

Joining the Mayor were Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire, Reverend Patrick Moriarty, a number of our borough councillors and officers, other local dignitaries and residents.

Holocaust Memorial Day is held on 27 January, the anniversary of the day in 1945 when the Soviet Army liberated the largest Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau.