Letter: Holocaust Day

Thursday 01 July 1999 23:02 BST

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: Sir: The Nazis slaughtered 6 million Jews with the horrendous intention of destroying an entire people. To designate one day a year to commemorate this vast human atrocity is not, as your unworthy leading article (1 July) suggests, a "token". It shows dignified and deserved determination never to forget the murderous past.

The Holocaust lessons have not been learnt. Both for the sake of the sufferers and survivors and as a signal for the future, a Holocaust Remembrance Day could not be more appropriate in the era of Kosovo, Rwanda and Cambodia.

Lord JANNER OF BRAUNSTONE

Chairman

Holocaust Educational Trust

London WC1

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