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27 January 2010 Ceremony marks Holocaust Memorial Day

Ceremony marks Holocaust Memorial Day

January 27, 2010

 

The Holocaust Memorial Day is annually marked and a solemn ceremony is held by the Trustees of the Soviet Memorial Trust Fund at the Soviet War Memorial in Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, adjacent to the Imperial War Museum, Southwark, London.

As usual, HE Ambassador of Belarus Aleksandr Mikhnevich joined the Mayor of Southwark, national and local politicians, British war veterans, diplomatic representatives of several embassies and many other supporters in this act and laid a wreath at the memorial for the memory of the victims of World War II to commemorate the Soviet Army's liberation of Auschwitz death camp on January 27 1945.

The Last Post was sounded to mark a two minute silence.




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