A special exhibition at Southend Central Library in Victoria Avenue to mark the anniversary of the Holocaust has been opened by the town's mayor Alan Crystall.
It is part of the commemorations which the borough is planning for Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27.
At library - mayor Alan Crystall, with Rabbi Mendel Lew and David Garston Picture: LUAN MARSHALL
The exhibition, on loan from the Jewish Museum in Finchley, is entitled The Last Goodbye: The Rescue of Children from Nazi Europe.
It records the story of the 10,000 unaccompanied children who came to Britain on the Kindertransport in 1938 and 1939.
Tracing the rise of Nazism, it highlights issues such as prejudice, racism and indifference, but it also shows the benevolence of those who opened homes to the refugee children.
The exhibition in the main display area on the ground floor of the library is open until January 31.
Published Wednesday, January 8, 2003
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