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Brown unveils holocaust memorial | |
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Chancellor Gordon Brown has unveiled a sculpture created by young people in Fife to commemorate the Holocaust. | |
The unveiling in Kirkcaldy marked the launch of a festival in Scotland which uses the Holocaust to address current issues and attitudes. | |
The festival is the work of pupils from three Fife high schools who visited Auschwitz-Birkenau in November 2005. | The festival is the work of pupils from three Fife high schools who visited Auschwitz-Birkenau in November 2005. |
The idea to create a piece of public art was developed by 12 students from Adam Smith College in Fife. | The idea to create a piece of public art was developed by 12 students from Adam Smith College in Fife. |
They wanted to make a lasting memorial as a sign of respect for all victims of the Holocaust and genocide, challenging racism and intolerance. | They wanted to make a lasting memorial as a sign of respect for all victims of the Holocaust and genocide, challenging racism and intolerance. |
'Safe place' | 'Safe place' |
The sculpture is in the shape of a doorway and has symbols carved into it from a special language created across Europe and America in the 1930s and 1940s. | The sculpture is in the shape of a doorway and has symbols carved into it from a special language created across Europe and America in the 1930s and 1940s. |
It was formulated by people who were displaced from their own communities and cultures. | It was formulated by people who were displaced from their own communities and cultures. |
The symbols tell others: "This is a safe place". | The symbols tell others: "This is a safe place". |
It will stand in Kirkcaldy's Memorial Garden, where it was unveiled by the chancellor on Friday. | |
The event also marked the beginning of the Anne Frank and You Festival, a three-week event driven by young people to challenge attitudes in present society. |