Faith and community group representatives joined residents and guests at a moving and poignant service for Holocaust Memorial Day today, Tuesday 27 January at Bromley’s Council Chamber.
A number of readings, speeches and prayers were heard at the service as speakers, including local leaders of different faiths, reflected on the terrible acts of inhumanity that defined the Holocaust. During the service, six candles were lit to remember the six million Jewish men, women and children murdered during the Holocaust, and the millions more murdered during Nazi persecution.
The Mayor of Bromley, Councillor Jonathan Andrews said: “The theme of Holocaust Memorial Day 2026 - ‘Bridging Generations’ - recognises the reality that as the years pass since the horrors of the Holocaust, ensuring that we never forget becomes ever more challenging. But it is as vital and important as ever that we remember all those murdered and who suffered terribly during the Holocaust, to ensure that they are never forgotten - and so that we can carry forward these important lessons to the present, as we commit ourselves to the promise: ‘Never Again’”.
The Mayor of Bromley was joined at the service by his Chaplain, the Mayoress, the Deputy Mayor and Deputy Consort, the Bromley Town Chaplain, the Leader of the Council, elected members and council officers. A local school also joined to listen to reflections from the speakers at the service, which included representatives from Bromley Three Faiths Group, Bromley Reform Synagogue and the Bromley Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE).
Holocaust Memorial Day is marked internationally on 27 January each year, which also commemorates where persecution led in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day in 2026 is 'Bridging Generations', which encourages active engagement with the past. Further information about Holocaust Memorial Day is available from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.
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