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Posted By richards on January 28, 2015

A candle to remember those who died but also symbolise a lighter and brighter future was lit by school pupils in the midst of poetry, prose and song.

Seventy years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust created 70 candles which were scattered around the UK, all to be lit in a united gesture on Tuesday.

The Chatham Memorial Synagogue was one of those to receive the candle and it was lit by representatives from Medways primary and secondary schools.

Chatham memorial Synagogue, High Street, Chatham. Holocaust memorial commemoration. Pupils from: Thomas Aveling.

Also on the evening Valeriia Reznik vice chair of the Medway Youth parliament said a few words on the theme of this years commemorations keeping the memory alive.

Toni and Charlie Fowler, from Mid Kent College, read a Holocaust survivor testimony and Warren Wood School pupils read out letters to Anne Frank they had composed.

Thomas Aveling School read Lyman Hancocks poem When Im Gone and Balfour Junior School orated a poem they had jointly composed on the conditions in the concentration camps.

Chatham memorial Synagogue, High Street, Chatham. Holocaust memorial commemoration. Pupils from: Mid Kent College

Then the synagogue was filled with the melancholy sound of Bishop of Rochester pupil Aaliyah Leishman, singing a song she had written for the memorial day.

Kuljit Rahelu, head teacher, said: We are really proud that our school was chosen to play a central part in commemoration events to ensure that future generations keep the memory alive of how so many people suffered in the Holocaust, under Nazi Persecution and in the subsequent genocides.

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Pupils lit a candle at Chatham synagogue for Holocaust Memorial Day

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