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Holocaust Memorial Day Candle Lighting
It is traditional at Holocaust memorial events to light six candles in memory of the six million Jews who perished in
the Shoah. In Ireland, we also light candles in memory of all of the other victims of the Holocaust.
Victim Groups
DISABLED VICTIMS:
In memory of people with disabilities and disabling conditions who were murdered, starved to death and forcibly sterilised
by doctors and other willing helpers
Candle-lighters: Deirdre Spain, Inclusion Ireland and John Dolan, Disability Federation of Ireland
POLES, SLAVS and ETHNIC MINORITIES:
In memory of millions of Poles and Slavs who were murdered, displaced, and forcibly ‘Aryanised’ by the Nazis; and the
thousands of ethnic minorities who were persecuted and murdered and sterilised
Candle-lighters: Beata Piekarska-Daly, Salome Mbugua, African and Migrant Women’s Network Ireland
GYPSIES:
In memory of the Romany people of Europe who were rounded up, murdered, displaced and forcibly sterilised
Candle-lighters: Ion Zatreanu and Jorg Dancea, Roma Support Group, Ireland
HOMOSEXUALS:
In memory of homosexual men and women who were persecuted and murdered because of their sexual orientation
Candle-lighters: Ross Golden-Bannon and Noelle Moran
POLITICAL VICTIMS:
In memory of the political opponents of the Nazis, Socialists, Communists, Trade Unionists, Democrats, and other anti-Nazi
organisations
Candle-lighters: Eibhlin Byrne, former Lord Mayor of Dublin and Gerry Gregg, film maker, Trade Union activist and political
campaigner
CHRISTIAN VICTIMS:
In memory of the Jehovah’s Witnesses and Christian victims of all denominations ––many of whom saved Jews – who were
persecuted and murdered by the Nazis
Candle-lighters: Louise Mary O’Sullivan, Mater Dei, Revd Darren McCallig, chaplain, Trinity College Dublin
JEWISH VICTIMS
Six candles are dedicated to the memory of the six million Jews, including one and a half million children, who were
annihilated in the Holocaust by the Nazis and their collaborators. Jews were exterminated in gas chambers, death camps
and concentration camps; Jews perished in the ghettos; Jews died of starvation and disease; Jews were shot in the forests
and Jews were murdered in the streets and in their homes.
Candle-lighters: These candle-lighters are children or grandchildren of Holocaust survivors living in Ireland
Joe Katz, whose mother, Frida, survived Auschwitz
Sharlette Caplin, whose father, Raphael Urbach, survived Buchenwald and Theresienstadt
David Phillips, whose father, Geoffrey escaped to England on the kindertranports
Caroline Zinn-Collis, whose father, Zoltan, survived Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Moti Neuman, whose parents, Abraham Yekutiel Neuman and Sheindl Golda (Yaffa) Shtainbock, survived camps in Siberia and
the massacre in Bronica forest
Rita Evrony, wife of Israel’s ambassador to Ireland, whose father, Leo Loeffer, survived Bergen-Belsen, Auschwitz and Buchenwald