Survivors mark Holocaust Day

DEATH camp survivors, President Mary McAleese, government ministers, nearly two dozen ambassadors and various religious leaders gathered last night to remember the Holocaust.

It was the first official memorial ceremony by the State to mark the deaths of six million Jews and thousands of other people targeted and systematically murdered by the Nazis.

The ceremony, in Dublin’s City Hall, heard Holocaust survivors’ recollections, readings, poems and choral music, and a candle-lighting ceremony in memory of all groups persecuted and murdered.