A programme of commemorative events at Manchester’s Imperial War Museum North has proved a big draw.
Tickets were sold out for a talk by survivor Mala Tribich, who fell victim to typhus while interned at Bergen-Belsen.
On Sunday, award-winning Israeli fine art photographer Ori Gersht is presenting his film Will You Dance For Me? about a young Auschwitz prisoner forced to dance at an SS officer’s Christmas party.
Guided tours of Holocaust-related exhibits were also organised in response to demand.
Spreading the word, Greater Manchester’s Jewish Representative Council supported events In Burnley, Blackburn, Wigan, Trafford, Rochdale and Bolton.
