Irish Holocaust Memorial Day

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Tuesday December 16, 2003 19:08 by pat c

The Holocaust Commemoration will take place in City Hall , Dublin, on Sunday 25 January, along with Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, members of the Roma and black communities, representatives of disabled people in Ireland and those with mental health illnesses, trade unionists , communists and members of the LGBT community will participate.

Rachel Armstrong, Assistant Editor of GCN and Tadgh O'Brien, LGBT USI Officer will light candles in memory of those who were shot, gassed and experimented on in death camps, concentration camps, prisons and in towns and cities across Europe because they did not "fit" the Aryan ideal. An estimated 60,000 Gays were among the Holocaust victims.

The Commemoration is organised by the Holocaust Memorial Committee of ireland which organised an event last year due to the failure of the government to do so.

Lynne Jackson,coordinator of the event is determined that an "Irish commemoration should include all the victims of the third reich".

* Time of event to be confirmed.

(news source: GCN, December 2003)