Candle-lighting ceremony for Holocaust Memorial Day
Southampton Solent University is collaborating with the University of Southampton to stage the lighting of a specially designed candle to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD).The candle created by Turner Prize winning artist Sir Anish Kapoor, is one of 70 which will be lit across the UK to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the Second World War. A ceremony will take place at Southampton Solent Conference Centre, Above Bar Street in Southampton at 6pm on Tuesday 27 January. Holocaust survivor, Arieh Simonsohn – who was