{"id":140707,"date":"2026-01-28T03:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/140707\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T03:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:40:06","slug":"lubbock-mayor-issues-holocaust-remembrance-day-proclamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/140707\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock mayor issues Holocaust Remembrance Day proclamation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Mayor Mark McBrayer recognized the victims of the Holocaust at today\u2019s city council meeting in honor of Remembrance Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The mayor issued a special proclamation recognizing one of the darkest chapters in human history. He recognized the millions of people who died at the hands of Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 40s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">McBrayer said the city stands firmly against anti-Semitism and all forms of hatred and bigotry. He also invited Jewish faith leaders to address the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe threat of antisemitism never goes away, it\u2019s always ready to raise its ugly head time and time again,\u201d McBrayer said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Rabbi Braun addressed the community about the importance of education and moral values.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWhen we think about the holocaust it\u2019s to make sure we educate our children that it\u2019s not just about learning and studying and being smart, it\u2019s about having moral values and make sure the world is a truly civilized place,\u201d Braun said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Holocaust Remembrance Day honors the day the Soviet Army liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz Birkenau 81 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Mayor Mark McBrayer recognized the victims of the Holocaust at today\u2019s city council meeting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3084,59316,319,66,168,170,59318,59317,169,11490,22642,27,59319],"class_list":{"0":"post-140707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-city-hall","9":"tag-holocaust-remembrance-day","10":"tag-kcbd","11":"tag-local","12":"tag-lubbock","13":"tag-lubbock-headlines","14":"tag-lubbock-mayor","15":"tag-lubbock-mayor-proclamation","16":"tag-lubbock-news","17":"tag-lubbock-texas","18":"tag-mark-mcbrayer","19":"tag-texas","20":"tag-the-city-of-lubbock"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}