A ceremony will take place this Thursday, 27 January in Ealing's Walpole Park to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2022.

Holocaust Memorial Day is held on 27 January each year to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of other people killed under the Nazi's persecution in the 1930s and 40s.

The date, 27 January, marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi's largest death camp.

Guests attending the Ealing ceremony are asked to arrive at 10:45am for a 11am start, for an event which will include Holocaust pledges, the laying of stones and the rededication of memorial trees.

The ceremony will be led by the mayor of Ealing, Councillor Munir Ahmed, with guests including Deputy Lieutenant Richard Kornicki CBE, Rabbi Vogel from Ealing Synagogue and Reverend Dean Ayres, associate rector of Acton.

Council leader Peter Mason will also reflect on the theme of Holocaust Memorial Day 2022: 'One Day'.

Identified by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, this year's theme is 'One Day' – 27 January – that we put aside to come together to remember, to learn about the Holocaust, the Nazi's persecution and the genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur, in the hope that there may be one day in the future with no genocide; to learn more about the past, to empathise with others, and to take action for a better future.

The Association of Jewish Refugees will also be planting a memorial tree in Lammas Park at noon on the 27 January.

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Holocaust Memorial Day ceremonies are also observed to remember the millions of people murdered in the genocides which followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.