AS Holocaust Memorial Day approaches, Pickering library will host a live webcast with a concentration camp survivor.

The webcast, organised by the Holocaust Education Trust, will feature Harry Spiro, 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 webcast, in which Harry will give his testimony and share recollections with Judge Rinder, will start at Pickering library at 10am tomorrow (Thursday) and will last an hour. People attending at the event will then be able to reflect briefly on what they have heard.

Cllr Greg White, North Yorkshire County Council’s executive member for libraries, said: “This offers local people a chance to come together to remember and reflect.

“As a hub of the community, the library is an ideal venue to host such an event. I hope as many people as possible will take the opportunity to attend.”

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

For more information, phone library volunteer Ian Ferguson on 07577 991476 or email ianferguson.yes@btinternet.com

Holocaust Memorial Day is on Sunday, January 27 - the date in 1944 of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Soviet armies.