Will you be lighting a candle today?

Good post. I will light a candle in memory. Thank you for reminding me.

I'll light one too.

I will light a candle, thank you for the reminder.
I used to go with my mother to a local lake where Holocaust Remembrance took place. We put little candles into paper boats and set then afloat. A little service took place. It was a beautiful and poignant ceremony.

Definitely we have dear friends who are Jewish, my candle will be lit for all the lost souls.

Mine is brand new this year, ready and waiting.

Yes,I will light a candle.Thank you for the reminder.

Sadly/shamefully this isn’t more widely known. I will light my candle and note it in my diary for the years to come. I don’t know anyone locally who might know why and have never noticed anyone doing this but by lighting my candle it’s one way to spread the fact and remember.

Thank you for posting Franbern.

I would’ve lit a candle, but I am at work ..💔✡️

Yes, and thank you for the reminder.

I will now you have reminded me Franbern. Thank you

Yes I will do now Franbern I wasn’t aware of this until I read your post 🕯️

Yes, I will thank you Franbern.

Yes, I will

And I'll light one too.

Of all the horrendous violence that the world has ever seen, I think the worst was the Holocaust. Sadly other ethnic cleansing acts have taken place since, but none so huge as the Holocaust. But we should remember them all.

There will be one lit in this household my DH has Yahrzeit memorial candles. They are often lit until they burn out in memory of family no longer with us.

I will too.

There's an excellent documentary on iPlayer 'How the Holocaust Began'
It features James Bulgin, who created the Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museum and investigates a story left unexplored - thousands of men, women and children shot and buried by the Nazis in thousands of trenches and ditches, dug in fields and forests across eastern Europe. This was often unrecorded and uncounted, and the victims lost to history.

I will light a candle.
I have Jewish friends, some of who escaped the Holocaust because they had come to England to escape the Russian Pogroms. Others lost many of their extended family in the Holocaust. We should all remember and learn a lesson.

Thank you Franbern, I will also light a candle.

Yes thank you Franbern, I will light a candle at 4pm and remember all those or who were killed in the death camps .

I shall.
Curiously, I am reading a book called "The Tatooist of Auschwitz". Very humbling.

I think it was so horrendous and for me it's still difficult to comprehend how a civilised European country could become so completely evil. Almost as if my mind can't quite take it in. After the war, my mother who had been widowed, was very keen on 'Peace and Reconciliation,' which led us to make contact with, and friends of, quite a number of German families, visiting each others country and so on. It opened my eyes to the fact that not all Germans were wicked, some resisted and paid a heavy price, others did what they could to support the persecuted. All felt enormous guilt about their country. Yes I shall light a candle today, it must never never happen again.

Definitely will light a candle this afternoon. Like many other GNs here, my parents were in the army in the war (yes, Mum too). They always stressed the importance of standing up for everyone, against tyranny.