Date: 28th January 2010

Ref: Holocaust Memorial Day

To the editor:

The 27th of January was International Holocaust Memorial Day, and this year I was privileged to attend the Medway event at the Corn Exchange   I felt it was particularly fitting that Medway Youth Parliament took a leading role in organising it, as the main focus was learning lessons from the past to ensure we build a more tolerant society in the future.

It is everyone’s duty to challenge discrimination in any form, wherever it’s found.  It is also important to challenge those who hold extremist views of any kind, as history has shown us what can happen if they build up as in 1930s Germany.

Yours faithfully

Cllr Vince Maple