Landmarks to be lit up for Holocaust Memorial Day

Historic landmarks in Hull are to be lit up in purple to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

Buildings and structures in cities across the UK will be illuminated on 27 January.

Hull's City Hall, Ferens Art Gallery, the Maritime Museum and the Queen Victoria Monument will shine purple from dusk as part of the display.

Mike Ross, leader of Hull City Council, said: "It is absolutely right that we take time to remember the six million Jewish people who were murdered during the Holocaust."

"We also commemorate the many others killed through persecution by the Nazis and those targeted in more recent genocides."

This year is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the largest Nazi concentration camp complex, Auschwitz-Birkenau.

The camp was at the centre of the Nazi campaign to eradicate Europe's Jewish population, and almost one million of the 1.1 million people who died there were Jews.

It is also 30 years since the genocide in Bosnia, where Bosnian Serb forces killed 8,000 Muslim men in Srebrenica in 1995.

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