A group of regional newspapers worked together this week in a bid raise awareness of Holocuast Memorial Day.

Trinity Mirror’s key regional titles worked with organisers of the event on Tuesday to create a central core of content that could be used across the group, with each title also adding extra local content.

For example, in Birmingham local poet Benjamin Zephaniah wrote a first person piece, while Scotland football manager George Burley supplied a message for Scottish titles.

Trinity Mirror’s head of multimedia David Higgerson built a special website, Remembering the Holocaust, aggregating all the in-paper content and adding audio pictures and galleries.

The theme of this year’s memorial day, which occurs on the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, was “Stand up to Hatred.”

Coventry, which was heavily bombed in World War Two, was a particular focus for the group as the main HMD event was held in the city.

David Brookes, editor of the Coventry Telegraph, said: “As the city of peace and reconciliation, we were happy to play our part in promoting Holocaust Memorial Day and spotlighting on its theme.

“Our week-long coverage included interviews with two women who escaped the Nazi death camps, articles of school pupils who had visited Auschwitz and pictures from the numerous events that took place in Coventry.

“Of course, HMD also remembers the victims of more recent genocides and one of the most poignant interviews we published featured a survivor of the Rwanda atrocities whose mother, father, brother and sister all suffered horrific deaths.

“I think all the coverage has brought home to people that we must ensure the hatred that led to the Holocaust is never repeated, and that its victims are never forgotten.”