Stockport councillors across all parties observed a minute’s silence for Holocaust Memorial Day at the start of the Full Council meeting on 22nd January.

Holocaust Memorial Day falls on 27th January and the theme for 2015 is “Keeping the memory alive”. It is marked each year on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, with 2015 marking the 70th anniversary.

You can find out more about Holocaust Memorial Day here.