Members of Parliament from across the House attended a reception last night in support of the work of the Holocaust Educational Trust throughout the UK.
In a speech, the Rt. Hon Nicky Morgan MP, Secretary of State for Education, encouraged all Members in the room to join the Trust on a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau with their constituents as part of its Lessons from Auschwitz Project and pledged to continue working with the Trust. She added: "the Holocaust Educational Trust has done the memory of those it represents proud. The living links to this part of history may be leaving us but it is essential that the work of the Trust continues."
Dan Jarvis MBE MP, Shadow Foreign Office Minister, also speaking at the event, pledged to continue supporting HET and commented: "if someone were to ask me whether they should visit Auschwitz, I wouldn't say they should, I would say they must. Visiting Auschwitz reminded me of my tome as a soldier... I saw similar brutal things but what stuck with me where the objects that people left behind. That sort of thing lives with you, you will always draw on it in much the same way that young people who visit Auschwitz with the Trust will draw on that experience for the rest of time."
Guests also heard the testimony of Freddie Knoller who speaks in schools for the Holocaust Educational Trust. You can read Freddie's story here.