MP marks day with reminder
organise this year’s Holocaust Memorial Service.
“The theme is the Power of Words and as Edmund Burke is widely believed to have said, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good people to do nothing.
“We know that in our country, hate crime has gone up alarmingly in the last two years.
“Whether it is anti-jewish, antiMuslim or anti any minority, prejudice is wrong and we should say so, loud and clear.
“My colleague, Alex Sobel, spoke in the Commons debate about his experience growing up.
“When he visited his great aunt, he was asked why she had no children of her own and was told that it was because the Nazis had experimented on her.
“It is impossible for any of us to imagine what that was like.
Mr Esterson agreed with Pauline Collier, who had criticised President Trump for retweeting hateful comments on Twitter.
He said: “He has great power and when we have power, we have to show even greater responsibility in how we exercise that power.
“Politicians know exactly what they are saying and the effect their words will have.
“And as we remember the Holocaust, it is right that we remember the genocides of Armenia, Srebrenica, Cambodia, Dafor and what is happening now to the Rohingya muslims in Myanmar. “Our job is to remember, to be vigilant, to speak out.
“We must learn and apply the lessons of history or we will repeat the mistakes.”
The Holocaust Memorial Trust asks people to register as a Guardian of the Memory online to ensure each victim is remembered. Visit www.guardianofthe memory.org