Memory’s duty
For all those gathered at Hyde Park on Sunday for Yom Hashoah, it was — as always — a moving experience. As we report, the March of the Living goes from strength to strength.
And this year also saw the widespread adoption of the yellow candle scheme, each one lit in memory of a victim of the Holocaust.
Next year, the organisers plan to expand its scope even further. All of these are important and very different forms of Holocaust remembrance and education. But the yellow candles in particular are a perfect example of how to deal with an increasingly relevant fact — that every year there are fewer survivors still with us.
There will come a time, relatively soon, when the Holocaust is no longer within living memory. So it is vital that we come up with creative methods for keeping the memory alive.
