VICTIMS of genocides across the world will be honoured at a church service with the theme ‘Keep the memory alive’.
Canon Erik Wilson of Middlesbrough’s St Barnabas Church will lead the town’s Holocaust Memorial Day event which will also commemorate atrocities in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
The service will take place at the Linthorpe Road church on Tuesday, January 27 from 1pm. All members of the community are invited to attend.
Reverend Wilson said: “I think it’s vitally important to remember what can happen when particular groups are picked out and victimised as happened in the Holocaust.
“We are standing together in remembrance of victims of the Holocaust and other genocides and also standing together as faith communities.”
The theme is ‘Keep the Memory Alive’, with January 27, marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the 20th anniversary of the Genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia.
The service will include readings, poems and music, as well as stories and memories. Presentations will be made by young people from Newport Community Hub and Unity City Academy and Soroush Sadeghzadeh, who moved to Middlesbrough from Iran, will tell his story.
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