Welwyn Hatfield residents and the council spent today commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day.
The day was marked by a civic service on The Campus in Welwyn Garden City.
The event honoured the six million Jewish men, women and children were murdered during the Holocaust.
In attendance was the Mayor of Welwyn Hatfield, Councillor Barbara Fitzsimon, who was joined by Vice Lord-Lieutenant Anthony Chapman DL, the Welwyn Hatfield Youth Council and Reynold Rosenberg from the Welwyn Hatfield Jewish Congregation for reflections and prayers.
This was followed by one-minute silence and the release of two symbolic white doves.
WHBC has a long-standing tradition of recognising Holocaust Memorial Day every year.
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The theme for this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day was ‘ordinary people’ where people were prompted to think about how easy it is for ‘ordinary people’ to become perpetrators.
Cllr Tony Kingsbury said: “Holocaust Memorial Day is our opportunity to remember those who suffered unspeakable horrors at the hands of the brutal Nazi regime and to reflect on what we can do as individuals to drive out hate, racism and anti-Semitism in all forms."
Next week, Holocaust Memorial Day art and written work on the theme will be displayed to the general public at Campus West in the Humphreys café.
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