Lynn Jackson brochure - Holocaust Education Trust Ireland

Holocaust
MEMORIAL DAY
COUNCILLOR DERMOT LACEY
LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN
A Nuclear-Free City
Office of the Lord Mayor
16 Castle Street,
Dublin 2
I feel privileged to host the first of what I am sure will become an annual Holocaust
Memorial Day in Ireland.
In January 2000, on the fifty-fifth anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-
Birkenau extermination camp, forty-four countries, including the Republic of Ireland,
signed the Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust.
Accordingly, we are gathered here this evening to pay homage to the memory of the
victims of the Holocaust, and to honour those who stood against it.
We remember the six million Jews - the men, women and one and a half million
children - who were exterminated in the death camps, in the ghettos, in the forests, in
the streets and in their homes, solely by reason of their birth and of their faith.
And we remember the millions of other innocent victims, including political,
religious and ethnic minorities, homosexuals, and people with disabilities.
Only by remembering the horrors that man is capable of inflicting on man will we
truly learn the lessons for today as we strive to eradicate the scourge of racism,
xenophobia, anti-semitism and intolerance from our midst.
I wish to acknowledge the work of the Holocaust Memorial Day Committee and
everyone else involved in organising this event.
Cllr. Dermot Lacey
Lord Mayor of Dublin
Telephone: 676 1845 & 672 2910. Fax: 679 4484. e-mail: lordmayor@dublincity.ie web: www.dublincity.ie
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