Synagogue holds Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony

Posted By on May 4, 2014

Pinner Synagogue holds Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony

8:30am Sunday 4th May 2014 in News By Bruce Thain

Naomi Brookarsh and Andrew Stuber lighting a memorial candle

Members of a Synagogue marked Holocaust Remembrance Day with an account of two Auschwitz escapees.

Pinner Synagogue, Cecil Park, heard from Guest speakers Professor Gerta Vrbov and Rudi Vrba, wife of escapee Rudolph Vrba.

Rudolph Vrba with friend Alfred Freddie Wetzler, escaped from the camp and travelled 11 days through Poland to alert the Allies of the horrors taking place at the extermination camp.

The Mayor of Harrow and dignitaries representing many European countries were present at the ceremony including the Ambassadors of Albania and Hungary.

There were also representatives from the Embassies of Austria, Germany, Poland, Romania and The Slovak Republic.

The event also saw the lighting of memorial candles to mark the annual day of remembrance.

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