York Minster Commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day

YORK, ENGLAND - JANUARY 25: The Reverend Canon Maggie McLean, Canon Missioner at York Minster lights one of the 600 candles shaped as a Star of David on the floor of the Chapter House of York Minster during a photo call ahead of a commemoration for Holocaust Memorial Day on January 25, 2023 in York, England. This year marks the 78th anniversary since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945, which was the largest Nazi death camp. The Holocaust genocide took place during World War II during which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million European Jews. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)