Provost Douglas McAllister and local citizens and VIPs marked Holocaust Memorial Day with flag-raising ceremony.
The ceremony, held at Solidarity Plaza was among thousands of events held worldwide to remember the six million Jewish people murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi persecution and subsequent genocides.
The international day is held every year on 27 January coinciding with the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp.
Provost McAllister was joined at the ceremony by President Timothy Lovat, President of the Glasgow Jewish Representative Council, along with Deputy Lord Lieutenants Gill Aitkenhead, Maureen Cummings and Owen Sayers, Dame Jackie Baillie MSP and members of West Dunbartonshire Council.
Provost McAllister said: “Today, we remember those who lost their lives because of hatred and intolerance and we are reminded that we as human beings should do all we can to ensure these acts of violence do not continue to happen to innocent people.”
The whole point of remembering the Holocaust is to realise human rights. Yet we have no human rights in Scotland and anyone can be locked up, drugged up, beaten up, raped and drugged to death. Just look at the case of Kyle Gibbon – he is no better off than a jew in Nazi Germany. Locked up in Carstairs with a swollen arm which already has two metal plates in after they broke it before.