A HOLOCAUST survivor has met with MPs, including Basingstoke’s, at a event to launch Holocaust Memorial Day 2019.

Basingstoke’s MP Maria Miller met Helen Aronson who survived the Holocaust as a teenager - she was in the Łódź ghetto in Poland.

Helen said: “It is vital that we do everything in our power to ensure that these things never happen again, anywhere in the world.

“Children must be allowed to grow up safe and secure and not be wrenched from their homes, like I was.”

“That’s why it is so important that you, as members of parliament are here today and that we make a commitment to mark Holocaust Memorial Day every January.”

Mrs Miller said: “The experiences of survivors such as Helen remind us about the importance of marking Holocaust Memorial Day – a day when we remember the millions of people who were affected by the Holocaust and subsequent genocides. I want to encourage everyone in Basingstoke to mark HMD on 27 January 2019.’