Holocaust Memorial Day is commemorated around the world every year on 27 January, the date of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945.
You can read about the history and purpose of the event on the Holocaust Memorial Day website.
Cambridge event 2012
A civic ceremony was held at the Guildhall on Sunday 29 January.
The programme reflected on the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2012: ‘Speak Up, Speak Out’.
Guest speakers included Martin Bell, the ex-BBC correspondent and independent MP who now works for UNICEF, paralympian Ann Chadwick, and Zuza Vrbova, the daughter of one of the few people to have escaped from Auschwitz.
For more information, email June Paynter at june.paynter@cambridge.gov.uk.
