MP Sir Liam Fox honours Holocaust victims in Westminster

Sir Liam's gesture is aimed at honouring the victims of the Holocaust and acknowledge the significant efforts of the survivors who continue to educate young people today.

Additionally, Sir Liam was also a speaker at the Bristol Holocaust Memorial Day Civic Commemoration.

The event, held the week before at City Hall, centred around the theme of the 'Fragility of Freedom'. Other speakers included Holocaust survivor Stephen Breuer, Rabbi Mendy Singer and pupils from Bristol schools.

During his address, Sir Liam said: "The holocaust was not a single event but the culmination of increasingly violent attacks on Jewish people.

"We must be ever vigilant and ready to speak out against antisemitism in all its forms – wherever it rears its ugly head.

"We must never allow it to reach such a hideous critical mass ever again.

"Holocaust Memorial Day is an important opportunity for people from North Somerset to reflect on the darkest times of European history.

"Today, I pledge to remember the six million Jewish men, women and children who were murdered in the Holocaust and speak out against all forms of antisemitism, which in recent months has risen exponentially and which needs to be tackled head on."

Karen Pollock CBE, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, said: "On Holocaust Memorial Day, we remember the six million Jewish men, women and children who were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators, and we honour those who survived.

"This Holocaust Memorial Day, as antisemitism once again sweeps across the globe, it is more important than ever to remember the six million Jewish victims and remind ourselves that anti-Jewish racism did not begin nor end with the Holocaust."

Holocaust Memorial Day takes place on January 27 every year, marking the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945.