Chichester Cathedral to hold act of remembrance for Holocaust Memorial Day

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, is an international memorial day on 27 January 27 that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust.

The Cathedral, in a post on Twitter, said: “Choral Evensong this Thursday (January 26), the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day, will begin with an Act of Remembrance to mark the 78th anniversary of the liberation Auschwitz.

"We remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi persecution of other groups and all those who have been targeted and killed in subsequent genocides.”

In Chichester, at the Minerva Theatre, Kate Mosse will be interviewing David Nott, a surgeon who goes into war zones and trains junior doctors to do surgery to patients wounded in war zones. There will also be showings of Finding Anne Frank at New Park on January 26 and 27.