Cllr Anna Smith - Standing up for your neighbour
Jan 27, 2020, 11:29 AM
It is a great honour to be here to today, to welcome you on behalf of Cambridge City Council to this event, which is our city’s 20th Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration. Here we pause to remember the 6 million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust, the millions of victims of Nazi persecution, and the victims of subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
This is an opportunity for us to mourn, to remember, to reflect. To bear witness. To ensure the victims are never forgotten. This year’s theme is Stand Together, and it is a chance for us to consider the role we all play in standing alongside the persecuted and vow to take an active part to challenge oppression.
Today we will be helped to do this through some powerful speakers, and through the words and music of our performers, including so many talented young people. I know that they will guide you through a thought-provoking and moving journey, and I want to thank them all now.
As we begin our commemoration, and consider the theme, Stand Together, let us remember the words of Sir Nicholas Winton, who did an amazing rescue mission, against the odds, which mission successfully saved close to 700 children from Nazi-occupied Europe. “ Don’t be content in your life to do no wrong - be prepared every day to try and do some good”.
This is an opportunity for us to mourn, to remember, to reflect. To bear witness. To ensure the victims are never forgotten. This year’s theme is Stand Together, and it is a chance for us to consider the role we all play in standing alongside the persecuted and vow to take an active part to challenge oppression.
Today we will be helped to do this through some powerful speakers, and through the words and music of our performers, including so many talented young people. I know that they will guide you through a thought-provoking and moving journey, and I want to thank them all now.
As we begin our commemoration, and consider the theme, Stand Together, let us remember the words of Sir Nicholas Winton, who did an amazing rescue mission, against the odds, which mission successfully saved close to 700 children from Nazi-occupied Europe. “ Don’t be content in your life to do no wrong - be prepared every day to try and do some good”.