Is there really any need for a Holocaust Day? One has to ask, what service does it perform?

The victims are either no longer with us or have lived for so many years without a designated day that it cannot help their healing process.

Remembrance Day surely covers the true message for all war's victims.

As far as general public awareness of the horrors of the holocaust, as a history teacher I can vouch that Nazi Germany is practically all most students do know about these days.

As a Jew myself, I cannot help feeling this is rather about a generation with no direct experience of conflict who wish to get the attention of victims themselves.

As for being more exclusive and including Armenians and gypsies as victims, what about homosexuals, mentally ill and physically handicapped people, socialists and liberals?

-Bernard Rosen, St Michael's Place, Brighton