Extracts from Commons debate on Holocaust Memorial Day 2021: Zoom - Jan 28
Friday, 29 January 2021 08:37
Nicola Richards (West Bromwich East) (Con) [V]:...Having spent time
with survivors, their lust for life never ceases to amaze me, and
this past year they have been even more inspiring. We all know that
the future of holocaust education will be challenging, as those
first-hand witnesses sadly become fewer. While this year has been
testing, covid-19 has not stopped survivors in their mission to
educate. I pay a special tribute to the incredible survivors who
have taken to Zoom to continue their...Request free trial
(West Bromwich
East) (Con) [V]:...Having spent time with survivors,
their lust for life never ceases to amaze me, and this past year
they have been even more inspiring. We all know that the future of
holocaust education will be challenging, as those first-hand
witnesses sadly become fewer. While this year has been testing,
covid-19 has not stopped survivors in their mission to educate. I
pay a special tribute to the incredible survivors who have taken
to Zoom to continue their incredible work
over the past year, and to the work of Karen Pollock and the
Holocaust Educational Trust.
(East Renfrewshire) (SNP) [V]: It is a privilege to
speak in this debate and I have been very struck by the
contributions from across the House. This is one of the most
important dates in the parliamentary calendar because of the
importance of understanding exactly what happened during the
holocaust and what continues to happen in genocides around the
world and, as the theme for this year’s debate would have it, to
“be the light in the darkness”. Light is much needed during these
difficult times. We need to be mindful that, along with the many
obvious challenges and worse that living through a pandemic brings,
there is also the fact that it makes everything more fragile.
Democracy and the normal strands of life that hold us all together
are all the more fragile because of the strains of the pandemic.
That means that we have to be ever more watchful, mindful and
vocal. As the wonderful girls of the Giffnock Guides, who I visited
on a Zoom screen recently, emphasised to me, we must
look out for each other, and be kind...
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