Why we all need Holocaust Memorial Day
Rabbi Sacks Published in The Daily Telegraph 27th January 2015
Why we all need Holocaust Memorial Day
Anti-Semitism is on the march once more in Europe - and no free society is built on hate.
Today, Holocaust Memorial Day, will mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. This year we will also remember the 12 people killed in the attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, the murdered policewoman and the four customers in a Jewish supermarket, shot as they were shopping on the eve of the Sabbath.
The journalists and the policewoman were killed because of what they did: satirising the prophet Mohammed and guarding the public. The Jewish customers were killed because of what they were. They were Jews. Seventy years after the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is alive and well and has returned to Europe.
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