Nick
Clegg’s Message on Holocaust Memorial Day 2015
26 January 2015
Last week, I was privileged to
sit down and talk to one of the bravest, most remarkable people I’ve ever met –
Zigi Shipper. Zigi was just 11 years old when he first escaped deportation from
the Lodz ghetto where he’d been living with his paternal grandparents. When the
ghetto was liquidated in 1944, Zigi and his grandmother were rounded up and
taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau. His grandfather had already died of starvation.
By the time he was just 16, Zigi
had witnessed and experienced unimaginable horrors. But, despite it all, his
story is one of true courage and hope. As a Holocaust survivor, Zigi has
dedicated his time to ensuring that the millions of Jewish people who were
persecuted and killed by the Nazi regime are never forgotten.
Now 85, Zigi travels to schools
to tell children and young people across the country his story. I met him with
two dedicated, young Ambassadors of the Holocaust Educational Trust, who took
part in a visit I made to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2012.
Learning about the Holocaust is
not just a history lesson. It is one of the most powerful antidotes we have to
anti-Semitism and extremism whenever and wherever it may occur. And we all have
a responsibility to ensure that the testimonies of Zigi and other survivors of
the Holocaust continue to be told for generations to come.
This year’s Holocaust Memorial
Day marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, and
twenty years since the Genocide in Sbreneicia, Bosnia.
So, on this day and in the weeks,
months and years that follow, please take a moment to remember the victims of
the Holocaust and all subsequent genocides. Together, we can honour their
memory in the best way possible – fighting hatred and ensuring their voices
live on. |
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