A HOLOCAUST survivor will share her story as an annual memorial event returns to being held in-person.

An event for Holocaust Memorial Day, hosted by the Bournemouth and Poole Holocaust Memorial Committee, will be held at Poole’s Lighthouse on Sunday, January 29.

The free-to-attend event will have the theme of ‘ordinary people’ to commemorate those who quietly help those in need.

Speaking about theme, organiser Lynda Ford-Horne said: “Ordinary people were perpetrators, bystanders, rescuers, witnesses – and ordinary people were victims. Our theme this year highlights the ordinary people who let genocide happen, the ordinary people who actively perpetrated genocide, and the ordinary people who were persecuted.

Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines MBE will be the event’s main speaker and will share her story as a Holocaust survivor.

In her talk, Lady Milena will recount her story of survival at 10 years old when her family were able to leave Prague on the last Kindertransport train with the help of Trevor Chadwick and Nicholas Winton, organisers of an operation which brought nearly 10,000 Jewish children in danger to the UK. 

Bournemouth and Poole HMD Committee is hoping to fill all 669 seats in the Lighthouse theatre, as this is the same number of children that were rescued on the last Kindertransport train.

Visit eventbrite.co.uk/e/commemoration-of-holocaust-memorial-day-2023-tickets-483001479427 to book a free ticket.