An Act of Remembrance

An Act of Remembrance was held in the Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, just opposite St George's Cathedral, on Sunday, 27th January 2008. This was the day that Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by soldiers of the Soviet Union in the First Army of the Ukrainian Front under Marshal Koniev in 1945.

At 11:00 am there was a procession to Southwark Council's Memorial Tree for a Service conducted by Rabbi Alan Greenbat.

The Rabbi praying in Hebrew for the victims of the Holocaust

After the Service those present moved to the Soviet War Memorial for the laying of wreaths.

Simon Hughes MP with Canon James Cronin

Simon Hughes MP before the wreath laying ceremony