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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 27 March 2025
Debate
Holocaust Memorial BillContribution
Before Report, I want to know who selected these four, which the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust go on and on about, and why. They must explain why they want to add these four to Holocaust Remembrance Day, and why just these four. They must also explain why they have taken the comments of the Holocaust Commission and changed them into displays of genocide in four, I submit, irrelevant countries. We must get back to the purity of the Stockholm declaration, which recognised that the Holocaust shook the foundations of modern civilisation and stated that its “unprecedented character” and horror will “always hold universal meaning”. Note the phrase “unprecedented character”. We cannot allow the unprecedented character of the Shoah to be diluted by reference to various other randomly selected genocides that are undoubtedly evil but not unique like the Holocaust.
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