HUNDREDS of people remembered the horrors of the Holocaust at a moving commemoration event in Dudley.

Concentration camp survivor Hannah Lewis attended the service at Dudley College’s Broadway Campus on Friday (January 23) to share her story.

Hannah spoke about how being captured by Nazis during the Second World War and how she and her father were the only members of the family to survive.

The service, organised by Dudley North MP Ian Austin and Dudley College Students’ Union, has become a regular feature in the town’s calendar for the past seven years.

Mr Austin said: "Hannah’s story was riveting. People could hardly listen as she told how she witnessed her mother being killed. It is humbling that she is prepared to use her experience of these terrible events to spend her time visiting communities like ours to tell them about this terrible period and where hatred and prejudice can lead."

He continued: "When other countries rounded up Jews and sent them to concentration camps, Britain provided a safe haven for tens of thousands of refugees. In 1941, with Europe overrun and America not yet in the war, just one country – Britain – soldiered on, against all odds, fighting not just for our freedom, but for the world’s liberty too.

"I believe this period defines Britain and what it means to be British. It is Britain’s unique response to the Holocaust and its unique role in the war that gives us the right to claim a particular attachment to the values of democracy, equality, freedom, fairness and tolerance."