Ludlow Primary School (for ages 2-11)
Local schoolchildren at Ludlow Primary thanked for helping to mark the Holocaust and other genocides
The Council, along with South Shropshire Interfaith Forum, has thanked the children of Ludlow Primary for their help in remembering the Holocaust and other genocides, through a special assembly and cherry tree planting ceremony on Holocaust Memorial Day itself – Monday 27 January 2025. The tree is the twentieth in the cherry tree orchard of remembrance being grown across Shropshire. Details are being shared at national level with the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT).
Kirstie Hurst Knight, Shropshire Council Member for children and education, said:
Tracey Huffer, Shropshire Council councillor for Ludlow East, said:
Imam Sohayb Peerbhai and Canon David Wiseman, for the South Shropshire Interfaith Forum, said:
Shropshire Council also encouraged everyone to join in with the national moment of remembrance later that day, through lighting candles to put in their windows at 8pm that day. This included information on the website and the staff intranet, as well as having a lock screen image for all staff and elected members to view. This year marked the 80th year since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp from the Nazis.
More about Holocaust Memorial Day
Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) takes place on 27 January each year and is a time to remember the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust, under Nazi Persecution and in the genocides which followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. It marks the Holocaust and other atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis, including against the six million Jews who were murdered, and atrocities against people with disabilities, Sinti and Roma communities, people who were black or Slavic eg from Poland, and people who were gay.