Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis addressed the audience in Victoria Tower Gardens outside the Houses of Parliament.
Holocaust survivors have joined hundreds of people at the National Holocaust Commemoration in central London.
Bronia Snow, 96, shared her story of leaving her parents behind to make a new home in the UK, marking the 85th anniversary this year of the Kindertransport rescues.The humanitarian rescue effort, which ran between November 1938 and September 1939, gave 10,000 children, most of them Jewish, safe passage to the UK from Nazi-controlled territory in Europe.
“I did not know a word of English but luckily had started to learn German at school so had a language which I could communicate,” she added.Ms Snow said her parents were deported to a concentration camp in 1942 and apart from one letter, all communication stopped.Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis speaks during the remembrance event in Westminster
“We as a nation will always strive to guarantee that we will remember the lessons of the Holocaust in order to shape our presence and to inform and inspire a better, healthier, more peaceful and secure Britain.”
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