Ealing Council will be marking Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 with a ceremony in Perceval House on Monday 27 January.

The event is taking place at 11am in The Atrium at Perceval House, Uxbridge Road, Ealing.

The ceremony, led by the Mayor of Ealing, Councillor Yvonne Johnson, will include guest speaker Seymour Kelly, who will be sharing his mother’s holocaust story, readings of Holocaust pledges by local schoolchildren and the laying of stones to commemorate and pay respect to those who lost their lives.

Those also in attendance will include Representative Deputy Lieutenant, Richard Kornicki CBE, Rabbi Hershi Vogel of Ealing United Synagogue, Rabbi Miri Larence of Ealing Liberal Synagogue, Imam Mujeeb Mirza of Darus Salaam Mosque in Southall, and Father David Neno, Area Dean of St Peter’s Church in Ealing.

Residents are invited to attend but are being encouraged to arrive early, as spaces are limited. Those wishing to attend must arrive by 10:45am.

This year’s theme, identified by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust is ‘For a Better Future’. It is a call for people to come together, learn about the Holocaust and more recent genocides, and take action to make a better future for all.

‘We come together’

Council leader Peter Mason said: “Eighty years on from the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp, and 30 years on from the genocide in Bosnia, we come together to remember the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, as well as the millions more who were victims of Nazi persecution and other genocides.

“In order to create a better future, we must look to the past. There is no place for antisemitism, discrimination and hate in today’s society. Within the borough and beyond, I hope we can come together to learn from these tragic moments in history and create a better future where people are not suffering prejudice or persecution because of their faith, ethnicity or other characteristic.”