HOLOCAUST Memorial Day is to be commemorated in South Derbyshire with the planting of a tree.
South Derbyshire District Council chairman Pat Murray will continue what has become a traditional tribute in the district by planting a yew at Rosliston Forestry Centre at 11am on Tuesday, January 27.
The ceremony will align South Derbyshire with communities across the UK keen to unite to remember the millions of people killed in the Holocaust and in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
Mr Murray said: "January 27 marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, and we should never forget the atrocities that went on.
"The planting of a tree is a symbol of life and hope, and I would urge members of the public to join me on Tuesday to pause for a moment and remember all affected by genocide."
Between 1941 and 1945, the Nazis attempted to annihilate all of Europe's Jews – this is known as the Holocaust.
By the end of the Second World War six million Jewish men, women and children had perished in ghettos, mass shootings, concentration camps and extermination camps.
The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust is the charity that promotes and supports Holocaust Memorial Day.
