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Holocaust Memorial Day

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

504 c964-86 

Session

2009-10

Department

Department for Communities and Local Government

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Mann | 504 c985-6 (Link to this contribution) I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. In that context, I wa...

Lee Scott | 504 c981 (Link to this contribution) Yes, that is perfectly correct. The commandant and the other staff lived in close proximity to where...

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Angela Watkinson | 504 c981 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has just described what disturbed him most. What disturbed me the most—he will have s...

Lee Scott | 504 c981 (Link to this contribution) Again, that is absolutely correct. Many more people want to speak in the short time we have left, s...

Jim Cunningham | 504 c981 (Link to this contribution) As I said earlier, I went to Auschwitz about 20 years ago. People can read about it or see films and...

Louise Ellman | 504 c981-3 (Link to this contribution) It is encouraging to see how Holocaust memorial day—set up 10 years ago following the work of my hon...

Speaker | 504 c981 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before I call the next speaker, let me remind the House that we have approximately 20 minutes...

David Winnick | 504 c984 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

John Mason | 504 c983-4 (Link to this contribution) The Holocaust Educational Trust makes it clear that the people who suffered during the holocaust inc...

Lee Scott | 504 c979-81 (Link to this contribution) Let me start by paying tribute to Karen Pollock and the Holocaust Educational Trust for the work tha...

John Mason | 504 c984 (Link to this contribution) Another Member wishes to speak, so I will have to carry on. On the home front, we need to learn how...

Andrew Murrison | 504 c965 (Link to this contribution) I have not been to Auschwitz-Birkenau with the Holocaust Educational Trust, but I have attended the ...

Shahid Malik | 504 c965-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely correct. That is the power of the work of the trust. It ensures tha...

Jim Cunningham | 504 c966 (Link to this contribution) I have been to Auschwitz, which is horrendous for anybody who goes there. I am glad that the Governm...

Shahid Malik | 504 c966-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is obviously right. It may sound perverse, but for those of us who have had the privi...

Theresa Villiers | 504 c966 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the Minister will agree that Holocaust memorial day provides a salutary reminder not ...

Shahid Malik | 504 c966 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is absolutely correct. Edmund Burke reminds us that, for evil to prevail, all that is ...

Shahid Malik | 504 c967 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman is saying that there is no room for complacency, he is, of course, right. Hist...

John Mason | 504 c967 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has mentioned hope a number of times, and I do not want to go against that, but does he...

Shahid Malik | 504 c967 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. That is why Ringelblum made sure that the histories were buried. Although the Nazis did...

David Winnick | 504 c967 (Link to this contribution) From the whole of Europe.

Shahid Malik | 504 c964 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of Holocaust Memorial Day." I am grateful ...

Mark Pritchard | 504 c964 (Link to this contribution) The Minister mentioned Majdanek, which I had the great honour of visiting with him and other parliam...

Shahid Malik | 504 c964 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely; the Holocaust Educational Trust, its chief executive, Karen Pollock, and its chair, Lord...

Andrew Pelling | 504 c964 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way, as I know he has limited time. May I add to what was s...

Julie Morgan | 504 c965 (Link to this contribution) I have great sympathy and support for my hon. Friend's remarks. Is he aware that the all-party group...

Shahid Malik | 504 c964-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is obviously correct. These are issues that we cannot just talk about in a histor...

David Winnick | 504 c965 (Link to this contribution) Nearly 50 years after the second world war, it is estimated that nearly 800,000 people were murdered...

Shahid Malik | 504 c965 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. At least 200,000 Roma and Sinti people were killed. It is right ...

Shahid Malik | 504 c965 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, who takes a keen interest in these issues, is absolutely correct. As I have said on ...

Paul Keetch | 504 c976-7 (Link to this contribution) I join the whole House in marking this day and pay tribute to the hon. Member for Hendon (Mr. Dismor...

Tony McNulty | 504 c977-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure, if that is the right word, to speak in this debate in this place. As my hon. Frien...

Robert Neill | 504 c971-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. That is why it is important first that the mainstream democratic partie...

Andrew Dismore | 504 c972-5 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that my right hon. and learned Friend the Leader of the House accepted my request for t...

Robert Neill | 504 c971 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is absolutely right, and I have been greatly impressed by the impeccable work of the C...

David Winnick | 504 c971 (Link to this contribution) I agree with that. Saturday will be an unhappy anniversary, because it will be 77 years to the day s...

Robert Neill | 504 c970 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right—evil is evil however it is dressed, and we need to restate that c...

Louise Ellman | 504 c970-1 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman share my concern that the Community Security Trust, in its meticulous collec...

Tony McNulty | 504 c978-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady misses the point: it was not a partisan remark. I simply say that she should look at t...

Shahid Malik | 504 c968-9 (Link to this contribution) It is true that those countries found wanting at that time—and it was not just Germany—have learned ...

Robert Neill | 504 c969 (Link to this contribution) I am sure the whole House will be in accord with the Minister, both in the content of his speech on ...

Andrew Pelling | 504 c969 (Link to this contribution) May I add to the hon. Gentleman's comments about the banality of Auschwitz-Birkenau? When we visited...

Robert Neill | 504 c969-70 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, and we must learn the lesson from the way in which Germany, ...

Angela Watkinson | 504 c967 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the Minister; he is being generous in taking so many interventions. One of the...

Shahid Malik | 504 c967-8 (Link to this contribution) It is profoundly chilling to consider that there was an era where so many people could believe that ...

Andrew Pelling | 504 c968 (Link to this contribution) As the Minister comes to the conclusion of his speech, would he acknowledge that today is a chance f...

Robert Neill | 504 c970 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with my hon. Friend's sentiments. In fact, I will turn in a moment to some of that ...

David Burrowes | 504 c970 (Link to this contribution) I commend what my hon. Friend is saying. The message that came across to me and the students from my...

Lee Scott | 504 c970 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that even though people put on suits and ties and stand on doorsteps telli...

Theresa Villiers | 504 c978 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman discredits what were very moving remarks by making a partisan point and perpetuat...

Subjects

Holocaust Memorial Day Holocaust Educational Trust Holocaust

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