Justice Secretary Michael Matheson criticised the Scottish Police Authority over its attempt to bring the chief constable back to work.

The justice secretary said in light of the ongoing investigation into the complaints about Mr Gormley, he asked the SPA to review its decision.

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Mr Allan says today it is more important than ever that we talk about Holocaust Memorial Day, external.

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The Holocaust Educational Trust, external was established in 1988.

"Our aim is to educate young people from every background about the Holocaust and the important lessons to be learned for today.

"The Trust works in schools, universities and in the community to raise awareness and understanding of the Holocaust, providing teacher training, an outreach programme for schools, teaching aids and resource material.

"One of our earliest achievements was ensuring that the Holocaust formed part of the National Curriculum for History.

"We continue to play a leading role in training teachers on how best to teach the Holocaust."

International Development Minister Alasdair Allan says lives were lost following a systematic denial of the rights and freedoms of the Jewish community.

Gay people, disabled people and anyone else labelled as different were also targeted, he notes.

The work of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, Interfaith Scotland and the Holocaust Education Trust is commended.

He says he is "extremely proud" that the government had managed to send thousands of students to visit Auschwitz to bring home the true cost of the Holocaust.

On 27 January every year, it is Holocaust Memorial Day.

It's a day for everyone to remember the millions of people who were killed, or whose lives have been changed, by an event in history called the Holocaust.

On this day we also remember the millions of people who were killed or have been affected by Nazi persecution and terrible crimes committed during conflicts in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.Click here to read the Holocaust life stories on theHolocaust Meomrial Day Trust website, external.

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Click here to read the Holocaust life stories on the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust website, external.

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SNP MSP Stewart Stevenson says: "The holocaust was the aggregation of millions of decision to execute millions of people who had committed no crime."

Mr Stevenson says new generations must be education about the dangers of demogoguery.

He says: "Democracy depends on diversity and so does society's future."

The SNP MSP praises the good work of the Holocaust Education Trust, external.

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Reports of anti-Semitic incidents hit record levels in the first six months of 2017, according to a Jewish charity.

The Community Security Trust, external (CST) said 767 reports were made to them between January and June - a rise of 30% on the same period last year.

A total of 80 incidents involved physical attacks - up from 45 in 2016.

Tory MSP Jamie Greene says Holocaust Memorial Day stands as a reminder as to what happens when hate is allowed to grow.

"We are still faced by the blight of antisemitism in the UK today", he says.

He adds everyone has a duty to call out antisemitism - or any racial hatred - when it appears.

"May the voices of the past guide the words of today but also shape the actions of tomorrow."

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SNP MSP Richard Lyle says he visited Anne Frank's house and he tells her story.

The Diary of Anne Frank is a global bestseller, describing the Jewish girl's life in hiding with her family in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam in World War Two.

The Frank family were deported to Auschwitz death camp in 1944, and Anne died later in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the age of 15.

"Like six million others her religion cost her life."

Mr Lyle says it is necessary to talk about what happened in World War Two to highlight the importance of equality.

It is time for everyone in this parliament to preach equality for everyone."

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"Remembering is important. It is necessary, but not sufficient," begins Green MSP Patrick Harvie.

To prevent such events happening again, there must be discussion on the language we use in the present and how it can define the future, he says.

Mr Harvie states words were used to dehumanise targets of the regime several years before the Holocaust occurred.

He suggests this same tactic is used today, adding Muslims, trans people and immigrants are those currently being targeted.

Warning that "far-right extremist parties" are on the rise in Europe, the Scottish Green co-convener says the task of challenging the misuse of words is one which must be undertaken.

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Labour MSP Johann Lamont congratulates the Holocaust Education Trust for their work.

Ms Lamont says: "Genocide can happen here, it can happen anywhere."

She says: "It creeps towards us step by step."

The Labour MSP highlights the power of humanity to overcome this and tells of her experience in visiting Bosnia.

Tory MSP Jackson Carlaw highlights he represents Eastwood - where three quarters of Scotland's surviving Jewish community lives.

Describing the concentration camps as a "tapestry of death", he notes Auschwitz is one of the few camps Nazi Germany did not have time to destroy.

He retells the story of one of his constituents who escaped from Germany into Poland during the war, before moving to London one year and three Home Office applications after her father had first moved to the UK.

Mr Carlaw concludes: "The voices of the survivors, those determined to live life to the full, is what I want to celebrate today."

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SNP MSP Kenneth Gibson says eveyone in society must take responsibility of their words as this year's themes suggests.

Mr Gibson say: "We can use our words to remember challenge and evoke change."

He describes those who challenged the dangers of Nazism.

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Mr Gibson says cites research that shows more than a quarter of British people hold at least one anti-Semitic view, according to a study of attitudes to Jewish people.

The Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) said the finding came from the largest and most detailed survey of attitudes towards Jews and Israel ever conducted in Britain.

But it said the study did not mean that British people were anti-Semitic.

Researchers also found a correlation in anti-Jewish and anti-Israel attitudes.

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The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT), external is the charity that promotes and supports Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD), external.

From the HMDT website, external:

"27 January is the day for everyone to remember the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, external, and the millions of people killed in Nazi Persecution, external and in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, external, Rwanda, external, Bosnia, external, and Darfur, external.

"27 January marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp.

"On HMD we can honour the survivors of these regimes of hatred and challenge ourselves to use the lessons of their experience to inform our lives today."

The aims of HMD are laid out in our statement of commitment, external.

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In March 2017 the charity launched Holocaust Memorial Day 2017 in review, external, a booklet detailing the impact that Holocaust Memorial Day has on individuals and communities across the UK.

The booklet highlights the diverse range of activities and locations in which HMD took place for 2017, as well as the fantastic media coverage and online engagement that helped raise awareness of the theme How can life go on?

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Mr Tomkins says the crime, though monstrous, was not perpetrated by monsters.

It was perpetrated by law-abiding citizens following orders, he notes.

The UN Declaration of Human Rights are "just words", he says, but words that secure the idea of the inherent rights of every human.

This means the defense of following law cannot be used again.

He says by remembering the Holocaust and its horrors, he can tell his Jewish children: "Not merely in hope, but in certainty - never again."