BROMSGROVE residents are invited to join nine schools and readers from all faiths to take part in a public Holocaust Memorial Day event this month.

The event is held in the Parkside Suite, Market Street, on Thursday, January 26 at 11am.

Cllr Helen Jones, Chairman of Bromsgrove District Council and host of the event, said: "Every year we set aside time to remember and think about the tragedy and atrocity of the Holocaust as a community, so that such a thing may never be allowed to happen again.

"This year up and down the county the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day is ‘how can life go on’, which asks us to consider our own responsibilities in the wake of genocide.

"There are no simple answers but the important thing is that we continue to ask it and discuss it together."

Holocaust Memorial Day is marked annually on January 27, to remember millions of people who have been murdered or whose lives have been changed beyond recognition during the Holocaust and in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

Some 11 million people, including six million Jews, were systematically murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust - the worst genocide in history.

For more on this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day, visit hmd.org.uk.