Survivor remembers Holocaust (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Survivor remembers Holocaust

7:40pm Tuesday 27th January 2009 in Bradford By Emma Clayton

Survivors of Nazi death camps joined the Lord Mayor of Bradford, faith leaders, civic leaders and schoolchildren for an event remembering the Holocaust today.

Ibi Ginsburg, then 19, was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland from her home in Hungary.

Most of her family died there. She met her husband, Val, in a camp in Germany and the couple came to Bradford after the war.

Mrs Ginsburg told those attending today’s moving event at Victoria Hall, Saltaire, with the theme Stand Up To Hatred that she refused to feel hatred. She said: “It is a corrosive emotion; it wrecks lives and destroys communities.

“It’s not just race; hate affects disability, sexuality and so on. At its most lethal it is in racism, in anti-semitism and Islamophobia. National Holocaust Memorial Day 2009 challenges us all to stand up to hatred.”

The Lord Mayor of Bradford, Councillor Howard Middleton, said: “This year’s theme invites us not just to remember but to challenge our own behaviour and stand up to how others are treated today and look at how we can make communities more adhesive, safer and stronger.”

The event featured a dance and drama performance by pupils at Tong School depicting racial violence against asylum seekers.