The Foreign Office has hosted a special event with the Israeli embassy ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day, in which three righteous gentiles were honoured.
Israeli Ambassador Daniel Taub and Minister for the Middle East Tobias Ellwood, who led the ceremony, also told more than 100 guests that Holocaust education was more vital now than ever.
The ambassador referred to the attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris in his speech, saying: "As we near the point when there will no longer be members of the generation that endured the horrors of the Holocaust left among us, we have a duty to redouble our efforts to listen to their stories, so that we too become witnesses.
“At a time when tragically antisemitism is resurfacing in Europe, the lessons these stories convey are as critical as ever.”
