Dear Sir,
I have organised and written the Holocaust Ceremony in Darlington for the last seven years. With the madness that is in Gaza there could be reasons why we cancel this years Holocaust Ceremony, but the Holocaust memorial is beyond the craziness that is occurring in Gaza.
The holocaust is to remember the millions of ordinary people who were killed simply because they did not fit or suit the aggressive leaders who wanted to dominate in their own image.
The Holocaust is to remember the suffering, so it is not consigned to history books where students will study the whys and wheres but fail to see that sense of humanity where the numbers they read about are actually fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters.
We must rise above the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and remember.
Councillor Gerald G. Lee