Emma joined Wolverhampton City College in their annual marking of Holocaust Memorial Day. The event held at the Paget Road campus brought together students and staff to discuss this year’s theme ‘speak up – speak out’.   

As well as Emma, the panel included fellow MP Pat McFadden, several college staff and Holocaust survivor Susi Bechhofer.

Susi Bechhofer is the daughter of a holocaust victim and a Nazi officer who was adopted into a British family shortly after the war and found out about her troubled family history many years later.

Emma said “It is always important to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. Some of the students talked about their recent visit to Auschwitz Birkenau and explained how the experience had affected them.

“The students asked many pertinent questions regarding the Nazis and the atrocities they carried out. It is so important to for every generation to learn about the Holocaust.”

January 2012