24th April, 6:45pm, Princes Street Gardens
A short service to mark Yom Hashoah, to commemorate the approximately six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust by Nazi Germany and its allies, and for the Jewish resistance in that period will be held at 6.45pm this evening.
The Lord Provost will be in attendance. It will take place at the Holocaust memorial, close to the war memorial in Princes Street Gardens. Enter by the floral clock entrance at the foot of the mound and turn sharp left. Note that parking on the West side of the Mound is available from 6.30pm.
In contrast to Holocaust Memorial Day in January, Yom HaShoah, held close to the anniversary, by the Hebrew calendar of the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto remembers the Jewish victims of the Shoah.
If you missed Simon Schama’s moving documentary The Road to Auschwitz shown just before Pesach, it is still available here.
We hope you can join us on Thursday, when our new chair, Andrea Torres, will be contributing a reading.
