A new app will allow users to read stories from people who were caught up in the Holocaust - "70 Voices: Victims, Perpetrators and Bystanders" will be available to download for free on both Apple and Android phones on Monday morning, ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27.

The app, created by the Holocaust Educational Trust, will feature a new story every day for 70 days. A weekly podcast will carry discussion of the themes that emerge.

Kirsty Young, the project manager at HET who designed the app, said it would bring accounts by survivors and perpetrators to the public's attention.

She said: "Coming up to maybe the last big anniversary with a large number of living witnesses, we wanted to reach people who haven't heard from Holocaust survivors.

"We also wanted them to have somewhere people can go to understand it as a historically complex issue, to take a moment every day for 70 days to think about what happened and the people involved."

She said that the app's focus on individual stories, most of which were written during the Holocaust, is crucial to comprehending the tragedy.

"How can anyone understand six million? And what are six million people, if not individuals who were rescued by individuals as well as brutalised by individuals?

"Looking at the survivors, re-humanising the victims, and understanding those who committed these crimes, as well as those who saved others' lives, is so important."

She added that it had been a difficult decision to include perpetrators' testimonies, but that it was impossible to discuss the Holocaust without considering those who were responsible for it.

"Educationally, you can't talk about the Holocaust in a vacuum. You have to explore the people on both sides.

"The victims didn't just disappear; they were murdered by other human beings. Forgetting that takes away from the story."