NEVER FORGET

Runrig- The Years We Shared. 

 Today is Holocaust Memorial Day and the 75^th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz Birkenau. To mark the occasion BBC Television in the UK (many of my overseas followers will also doubtless be able to watch) are televising several programmes.

On BBC 2 at 7pm this evening more than 150 survivors attend a commemoration for Holocaust Memorial Day. Through music, poetry and powerful personal testimony, all those who were persecuted by the Nazis as well as those who were victims of later genocides are remembered.

This is followed on BBC 2 at 9pm by “The Windermere Children” which is a very moving drama exploring a remarkable true story. Written by Simon Block and drawing on first person evidence this programme looks at the events of August 1945 when a coachload of young survivors of the Nazi Holocaust arrived at the Calgarth Estate in the Lake District, England.

Tomorrow (Tuesday) also on BBC 2 at 9pm is “Belsen Our Story” which is a documentary exploring the concentration camp featuring personal accounts from the few remaining survivors together with archive footage. Many thousands died at the camp from starvation and disease with many bodies left unburied.

NEVER FORGET

Stanley Lovatt

Honorary Consul for Israel in Scotland