Lanarkshire MP shares importance of marking Holocaust memorial day

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Anum Qaisar MP has highlighted the importance of this week’s Holocaust memorial day and has written to all of the secondary schools in her Airdrie & Shotts constituency sharing resources on the poignant commemoration.The annual event falls on January 27, and Ms Qaisar contacted her local schools to pass on materials produced by the Holocaust memorial day trust after recently meeting with representatives of the organisation.She said: “It is vital we continue to educate our children about atrocities such as the Holocaust and more recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.”The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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It “allows us to reflect and take time to learn the lessons of the past, and bring people from all backgrounds together to recognise the harms of genocide”.The memorial day trust arranges an annual online commemoration and has this year given schools use of a 20-minute film featuring testimonies from Holocaust survivor Dr Martin Stern and Amouna Adam, who survived the genocide in Darfur.Ms Qaisar said: “Commemorating this day is incredibly significant, as it remembers the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of other people murdered under Nazi