Macclesfield will host a remembrance service to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day.

Cheshire East Council is inviting the public to pay their respects at Macclesfield Town Hall on Monday, January 27.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp complex, as well as the 30th anniversary of the Bosnian Genocide.

A spokesperson for Cheshire East Council said: "We hope that Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 can be an opportunity for people to come together, learn both from and about the past and take actions to make a better future for all."

Holocaust Memorial Day takes place every year on January 27, having first been held in the UK in 2001.

It serves as a day to remember the six million Jews and millions of others murdered by the Nazi regime and their collaborators, as well as the victims of more recent genocides recognised by the UK government, including those in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

The theme of this year's Holocaust Memorial Day is 'For a better future'.

The remembrance service will begin at 10.30am on Monday, January 27 (Credit: Cheshire East Council)

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Mayor of Cheshire East, councillor Marilyn Houston, will lead the hour-long service at Macclesfield Town Hall, which begins at 10.30am.

She will be joined by guest speaker Leah Burman from the Northern Holocaust Education Group (NHEG).

NHEG was founded with the aim of ensuring future generations can continue to experience the life stories of victims of Nazi persecution and the Holocaust.

Ms Burman will recount the story of her father, Ziggy Landschaft, who as a teenager survived the Krakow Ghetto, forced labour camps, the 'death march' to Mauthausen concentration camp and being shot while escaping just hours before liberation by the US army in May 1945.

Other survivors of genocide will then tell their stories, followed by the lighting of memorial candles and a two minutes' silence.

Dignitaries from across the borough will also give addresses, including Cheshire East Council leader Nick Mannion and deputy leader Michael Gorman.