City remembers the Holocaust

Buy photos » The event’s speakers - Coventry Council chief executive Martin Reeves, Appolinaire Kageruka, Caroline Bonner, Dr Martin Stern and Lord Mayor Keiran Mulhall. 05.012.021.cov.jg4

LOWER Precinct fell still on Friday as the city remembered the Holocaust.

A special event at the shopping centre featured music and guest speakers, including survivor Dr Martin Stern.

As a five-year-old child in Nazi-occupied Holland, Dr Stern was sent to a ghetto in Theresienstadt with his one-year-old sister because his father was a Jew. He now devotes his time to studying genocide and teaching about such events.

Appolinaire Kageruka, from Rwanda, was also part of the event. He lost members of his family in 1994 and remembered how friends and colleagues became enemies.

Other speakers included Lord Mayor Keiran Mulhall and council chief executive Martin Reeves, who focused on this year's theme, Speak Up, Speak Out.