Last week I had the honour to attend Brent’s Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Civic Centre.

We were commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation by the Red Army of Auchwitz/Birkenau concentration camp, a place of torture slave work and murder. Some 1.2 million people died there. Overall 95 per cent of European Jewry was wiped out.

The event was very well attended with youngsters from all over the borough taking part.

The Holocaust was unique in that this was the first and only time in history that a legitimate government formed, and then enacted, a policy to annihilate an entire race of people based purely on their religious beliefs, or that of their parents and grandparents. In all, 95pc of European Jewry was wiped out in the space of four years. Several million gentiles were also murdered in Nazi concentration camps, including Roma gypsies, Poles, Slavs, homosexuals, communists, socialists, political prisoners and some allied prisoners of war.

The Holocaust set the benchmark for depravity and evil in the history of mankind.

Yet today there are some who will continue to perpetrate their hate. antisemitism has been at the forefront of the news due mainly to the antics of Jeremy Corbyn and his Momentum followers. Attacks on Muslims are on the increase. In neighbouring Camden antisemitic and Nazi symbols were daubed on the walls of a synagogue and Jewish shops,

It's up to us to educate children so that the horrors of the Nazi's and recent acts of genocide as well as hate towards people stop.