North Wales Assembly Member Mark Isherwood AM at the recent Holocaust Memorial Day event at Rhyl Town Hall
North Wales Assembly Member, Mark Isherwood was pleased to attend the recent Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) event which took place at Rhyl Town Hall.
Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) has taken place in the UK since 2001, with a UK event and over 2,000 local activities taking place on or around 27 January each year. It provides an opportunity for everyone to learn lessons from the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution and subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur and apply them in the present day to create a safer, better future.
Mr Isherwood joined others including students of Rhyl High School and Blessed Edward Jones RC High School, Maurice Lansman, President of Friends of HMD NE Wales, Rhyl Councillor Bill Tasker, Deputy Chairman of Denbighshire County Council, Councillor Blakeley and Consort, Michelle, and Councillor Margaret McCarroll at the Rhyl event, which was organised by Charles Leach.
Mr Isherwood said:
“We must remember that the Nazis in Germany understood that it is easier to unite people against, rather than for something – and that they therefore turned “the minorities within” into scape goats for all society’s ills. The rest, as they say, is history, and history tends to repeat itself for those who are foolish enough not to learn its lessons.”
