“I wanted to act as witness to the stories of the horrors that had taken place there. “This year, the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust has poignantly reminded us that remembrance is the equal duty of each new generation. That we each have to work to combat the risk that memory fades and as a result solidarity suffers. “The Holocaust was the systematic murder of six million Jews - six million individual lives destroyed by hatred. "He did not live to see the memorial, but he would have been proud to know that Parliament has now passed the Holocaust Memorial Bill and that work will soon begin.”