EVERYONE who visits Auschwitz can feel the cloak of inhumanity that still shrouds it all these decades later.
Yesterday the world marked the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the extermination camp where millions of Jews and other victims perished.
The government has announced it is to contribute £50m to a new memorial and education centre, because education is crucial to the legacy of those terrible events.
Holocaust Memorial Day is important not just for Jews, but for all of us, as a reminder of the cruelty and evil that is perpetrated if we allow it. It takes only indifference.
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