Holocaust Education Trust 2026

On 12 January 2026 I signed the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Book of Commitment, pledging my commitment to marking Holocaust Memorial Day – honouring the six million Jewish men, women and children murdered during the Holocaust and to pay tribute to the extraordinary Holocaust survivors who work tirelessly to educate young people today.

Holocaust Memorial Day 27 January this year marks over 80 years since the liberation of the infamous former Nazi concentration and death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, in 1945. It presents an opportunity for people from Walsall and Bloxwich to reflect on the darkest times of European history. Across the UK and internationally, people will come together to commemorate the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps across Europe and to remember the Holocaust.

As survivors are becoming fewer and frailer, the responsibility falls on us and the next generation to remember and ensure the lessons of the Holocaust are never forgotten. This Holocaust Memorial Day brings the Holocaust to the fore of our national consciousness.

On Holocaust Memorial Day we also remember and pay tribute to all of those persecuted by the Nazis, including Roma and Sinti people, disabled people, gay men, political opponents to the Nazis and others.