The United Nations' Holocaust Day is marked worldwide to commemorate Jews and other non-Arian races who were killed by the Nazis during World War II. It was established on January 27, the day the Soviet Red Army liberated the prisoners of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland in 1945.
Earlier today, participants in the ceremonies laid flowers in the Imperial War Museum's park for the Soviet people who died in WWII.
The ceremony brought together ambassadors and senior diplomats from Russia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine, as well as British "northern convoys" veterans wearing their uniforms and white berets and carrying the banners of the military units they served in.
Rev. Rabbi Alan Geenbat held an impromptu service near a tree planted in 2001 in commemoration of the Holocaust victims and issued a call to counter violence and racism, which, he said, are still rife in many parts of the world.
