A SERIES of events to remember those persecuted throughout the last century is to be held in County Durham.
Holocaust Memorial Day - Saturday, January 27 - will be marked by a lecture and service organised by Durham Diocese, to be held in Elvet Methodist Church Hall, Old Elvet, Durham.
Paula Kitching, coordinator for holocaust and anti-racist projects at The Spiro Institute, London, will speak on child victims of genocide from the holocaust to today, at 6.30pm, on the memorial day.
Her talk will precede a service at 7.30pm, led by the Bishop of Jarrow, the Right Reverend Alan Smithson.
The story of the liberation of the Belsen concentration camp, where Anne Frank died, and the role the Durham Light Infantry played in that, will be told at an exhibition at County Hall, Durham, from January 23 to 31.
Alongside will be an exhibition by the county's schoolchildren, commemorating the holocaust and an exhibition on the life of Anne Frank.
A holocaust memorial book can be signed at The DLI Museum, Aykley Heads, at the same time.
Meanwhile an exhibition about the Jewish way of life will run at Newcastle's Discovery Museum until February 11. Curator Graham Bradshaw said: "One of the main aims of the exhibition is to fight racism and promote understanding between faiths."
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