West Dunbartonshire commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day.

On January 27th, the 77th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, West Dunbartonshire commemorated Holocaust Memorial Day.  The event was first held in January 2001 and has been marked on the same date every year since. Depute Provost, Karen Conaghan raised the Holocaust Memorial Flag at Solidarity Plaza, Dumbarton Road, Clydebank.  This was to honour the six million Jewish men, women and children, and others, who lost their lives during the Holocaust. Pictured left to right are; Laura Mason, Chief Officer of Education, West Dunbartonshire Council, Owen Sayers, Deputy Lieutenant, Dunbartonshire Lieutenancy, Paul Edlin, President of Glasgow Jewish Representative Council, Karen Conaghan, Depute Provost of West Dunbartonshire Council, Anne  Smillie Deputy Lieutenant, Dunbartonshire Lieutenancy, Councillor Sally Page, West Dunbartonshire Council, Bailie Denis Agnew, West Dunbartonshire Council, Martin Docherty-Hughes MP for West Dunbartonshire.