Scotland’s national event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day was held in Stirling.
The event at the university’s Macrobert Arts Centre was part of the UK national programme dedicated to rememberingvictims of the Holocaust, Nazi persecution and genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.
Speakers at the event included Arn Chorn Pond, who escaped from Cambodia after being held by the Khmer Rouge and is now a human rights activist; and Alfred Munzuer, who, as a Jewish child during the Holocaust, was separated from his family and kept in hiding by Indonesian neighbours in Holland.
There was also a moving musical performance on the plight of the Roma people during the Holocaust, and a documentary featuring interviews with Holocaust survivors produced by educational charity From Yesterday for Tomorrow.
Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop attended the event and said: “It’s an honour to have been part of Scotland’s national Holocaust Memorial Day event.”
Stirling MP Anne McGuire marked the day by signing the Holocaust Educational Trust Book of Commitment in the House of Commons.
“The book honours those who died during the Holocaust and the survivors who educate young people about what they endured,” she said.
The MP also asked her constituents to mark the day “in whatever way they feel appropriate in this fight against prejudice and intolerance”.