An event will take place in the Mansion House at three o'clock this afternoon to honour the six million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis.
The commemoration takes place every year on the Sunday nearest to the 27th of January, International Holocaust Memorial Day .Advertisement
Holocaust; World war two: Warsaw Jews at gunpoint. SS troops look on. Warsaw Ghetto 1943. Image: World History Archive / Alamybut this is being met with oppositionChairman of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland Maurice Cohen said Jewish people were deliberately slaughtered on a scale never seen before or since."The Holocaust was pre-meditated industrialised slaughter that has never occurred before or since in human history.
"One has to remember, there was nine million Jewish people in 1939, 1945 six million had been slaughtered and there were only three million left."Main image: President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins meets with Holocaust survivors Walter Sekules, Suzi Diamond and Tomi Reichenthal at the National Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration event in Dublin's Mansion House. Image: PA Images / Alamy.
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