Monday September 27 was Holocaust Memorial Day, a time when we must remember that 6 million Jews were put to death, men women and children. We must also remember that Soviet citizens, Poles, Serbs, Romani, Slovenes, Spanish republicans, Freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses, disabled and lesbian and gay people were also murdered.

It is often forgotten that the Nazis believed that disabled people were useless and a burden to society and were put to death.

Gay men and lesbians were put to death for their sexuality - it is where the pink and black triangle symbol came from.

Much was reported in the week before Holocaust Memorial Day, but the reporting centred on unforgivable murders of the Jews, forgetting that there were millions of others murdered at this time.

My father, a soldier in the Second World War, was in a squad who helped to liberate a Nazi death camp. He would not talk of the horror that he experienced, only saying that some of the guards tried to disguise themselves as prisoners but were easily detected because of their good health and nutrition.

Sadly we have not learnt from this mass murder as it still goes on in the world even today -Rohingya in Myanmar and the former Yugoslavia, to mention a few.

Paul Olford,

Leytonstone