A SPECIAL event will be held to mark the approach of Holocaust Memorial Day this month.

A live webcast will be held at Pickering library on Thursday, January 24, ahead of HMD on Sunday, January 27, which marks the date in 1944 of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Soviet armies.

The live webcast by the Holocaust Education Trust will feature Harry Spiro BEM, a survivor of both Buchenwald Camp and a death march at the end of the war, and Judge Robert Rinder, who appeared recently on BBC TV’s Who Do You Think You Are and discovered that his grandfather, also a Holocaust survivor, had lived in the same town as Harry.

The event will start at 10am and will last an hour, and visitors will be able to reflect on what they have heard.

The library will open slightly earlier than usual – at 9.50am – to allow guests to be in place by 10am, and the event is free.