Young Holocaust Educational Trust ambassadors played a key role in the charity's dinner at London's Guildhall on Tuesday, stressing their determination to fight against antisemitism and other forms of prejudice.
One of the hosts of the dinner - at which the keynote speaker was Chief Whip Michael Gove - was William Pinder, 19, an HET ambassador for London and a graduate of its Lessons from Auschwitz programme.
He said that when he returned from Auschwitz, he was bombarded with questions from fellow pupils. "I sat down by myself and realised where I had been. It had a really big impact on me.
"The things I saw were so horrific, like the room full of hair and piles of shoes." It had given him "the motivation to try to make sure things like this never happen again".
