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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 27 March 2025

Debate

Holocaust Memorial Bill

Contribution

The second group is much easier and less emotional to state. It is: others. That is, the people who come to such a place: young people who are educated in a world that we hope will put aside the extremism that the Holocaust depicted, and all people who go there and come away thinking that this kind of horror should never, ever occur again. This needs—and I ask the Minister to confirm this—to be used as a very simple example. It should not say that there have been 13 events around the world that contribute to this kind of issue; it should say that there has been this continued exodus that I have referred to—that a whole race has been driven to different parts of the world by antisemitism and that 6 million of them were murdered by the Nazis and their sympathisers. I say to the noble Lord, Lord Pickles, that, whatever their labels were, they were sympathisers of the Nazis and believed in exterminating the Jews at about the same time and in about the same area of the world.

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