VICTIMS of the Holocaust will be remembered at a ceremony at the Regent Circus Cenotaph on Sunday.
The ceremony will mark Holocaust Memorial Day when victims of genocides from all over the world are remembered every year on January 27.
The date marks the day when the Auschwitz concentration camps were liberated by allied forces in 1945.
The theme for this year's commemoration is Torn from Home, which encourages people to reflect on the impact of the trauma caused by the force removal of people around the world due to persecution, genocide, and human rights tragedies
There will be a 20-minute wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph at 12 noon following by readings and a time to reflect at the Friends Meeting House on Eastcott Hill.
Holocaust Memorial Day was first marked nationally in 2001, and has been well-attended in Swindon ever since.
Anyone with appropriate personal stories or readings is welcome to speak at the gathering.
They have been asked to contact Matt Holland on matt@lowershawfarm.co.uk
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