Today marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. DRUK representatives will be joining community leaders, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at a Holocaust Memorial Day commemorative event in London. DRUK CEO Kamran Mallick said:
“The murder of millions of Jews, and the killing of so many people for their sexuality, ethnicity, beliefs and for having disabilities is still so hard to comprehend. It seems incredible that within living memory, a European government enforced, first, the sterilisation of disabled people, and then, an active killing programme in the T4 camps. Over a quarter of a million disabled people were killed by the Nazis, their mass gassing providing the model for later death camps, including Auschwitz.
On this, the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we will remember all who were lost and all who against all odds survived. We will remember the 1.1 million people killed at Auschwitz. We will remember the 3.2 million people killed across all Nazi death camps. Let us never forget.”
The commemoration in Westminster honours survivors of the Holocaust, Nazi persecution, and the genocides which followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.