More than 1,600 people, including genocide survivors, are attending a special service at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
The event, in the new European Capital of Culture, falls on the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Earlier, Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks told Sky News why it was important the next generation understood the horrors of the holocaust.
"There is still ethnic and religious violence throughout the world and they understand you can not merely be a bystander wherever you can make a difference, you must.
Earlier, Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks told Sky News why it was important the next generation understood the horrors of the holocaust.
"There is still ethnic and religious violence throughout the world and they understand you can not merely be a bystander wherever you can make a difference, you must.
"So we're really enlisting this young generation to continue to fight prejudice ... against whoever, any religion, any colour, just for who we are or what we believe, or the colour of our skin," he said.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, said cruelty was the result of a "failure in imagination".
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, said cruelty was the result of a "failure in imagination".
Speaking on Sky News he said: "It's the same digging of a great ditch between different kinds of people ... wherever you have the world divided into two groups that can't communicate, can't imagine what it's like to be the other then you have the potential for disaster and horror."
Dr Williams and Sir Jonathan will sign the Pledge Against Genocide in the form of a large mural artwork outside the Philharmonic Hall following the service.
Also present at the memorial are the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Hazel Blears, former BBC war correspondent and independent MP Martin Bell and Liverpudlian actor Jason Isaacs, who plays Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films.
The programme includes personal testimony from survivors and relatives, as well as poetry, music and speeches.
Some 11 million people, six million of them Jews, were systematically murdered in Europe by Nazi Germany during the 1940s.
Dr Williams and Sir Jonathan will sign the Pledge Against Genocide in the form of a large mural artwork outside the Philharmonic Hall following the service.
Also present at the memorial are the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Hazel Blears, former BBC war correspondent and independent MP Martin Bell and Liverpudlian actor Jason Isaacs, who plays Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films.
The programme includes personal testimony from survivors and relatives, as well as poetry, music and speeches.
Some 11 million people, six million of them Jews, were systematically murdered in Europe by Nazi Germany during the 1940s.
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