Events will be taking place today, 27 January, in Orkney to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

A silent vigil is to be held outside St Magnus Cathedral, Bridge Street, Kirkwall between 12.45 and 1.15pm.

Inside the cathedral from 10am to 4pm there is a one day art installation by Robert Downes.

The Holocaust was a genocide perpetrated by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. From 1941 to 1945 six million Jews were murdered across Europe.

The murders were committed primarily through mass shootings across Eastern Europe and poison gas chambers in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and Chełmno in occupied Poland. Separate Nazi persecutions killed millions of other non-Jewish civilians and prisoners of war (POWs); the term Holocaust is sometimes used to include the murder and persecution of non-Jewish groups.