Holocaust Day - Shoreham remembers

STONES and white roses were laid and candles lit to remember victims of the Holocaust.

Saturday was Holocaust Memorial Day and a service organised by Shoreham Royal British Legion was held at the war memorial in East Street, Shoreham, writes Michelle Nevell.

Led by Father Marcus Ronchetti, the event marked the 62nd anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

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Pupils from Buckingham Middle School, Shoreham, placed white flowers on the memorial, alongside white wreaths from Adur District Council chairman Brian Coomber and Lancing Parish Council chairman Angie Mills.

The theme of this year's service was "the dignity of difference" and Fr Ronchetti urged those at the event to think about the continuing implications of racism and intolerance manifest in society today.

Two buglers played the Last Post and there was a two-minute silence.

Two Buckingham Middle pupils also lit seven torch candles to remember all who had died as a result of genocide around the world.

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Mr Coomber, Mrs Mills and Buckingham head teacher Sue Benton-Stace read survivors' stories and poems.

Everyone was then invited to take a stone from a basket and add it to a pile on the memorial '“ symbolic of the stones traditionally placed in memory when visiting a Jewish grave.