Felicity Buchan has signed the Holocaust Educational Trust's Book of Commitment in Parliament, on behalf of Kensington residents.
The MP for Kensington paid tribute to the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, along with the millions of others killed in other genocides, in Bosnia, Cambodia, Rwanda and Darfur.
Felicity said:
"I'd to pay particular tribute to a remarkable lady in Kensington — Marika Henriques — a Hungarian born citizen who was just 9 years old when the horrors of the Holocaust took place. Separated from her family, Marika became a ‘hidden child’ – a dark and frightening lifestyle that is etched in her memory to this day. Having survived the experience, Marika returned to Hungary, later calling London and Kensington her home. To fully understand the atrocities that occurred, I visited Auschwitz and was overwhelmed by the scale of the barbarism of the Holocaust.
This year, we are marking 77 years since the liberation of the concentration camps of Europe and the end of the Second World War. On the 27th January, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, people across the globe will remember.
Watch my video message here, and watch my Holocaust Memorial Day Question at the Business Statement in the House of Commons Chamber here."
