Prime Minister: “There is no better place for the Holocaust Memorial to be than right next to our Parliament”

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Prime Minister Theresa May underlined that “there is no better place for the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre to be than right next to our Parliament”, during PMQs this week.

CFI Officer Bob Blackman MP said: “Yesterday, London students heard from the renowned Holocaust survivor Hannah Lewis, who described the horrors of Europe’s darkest hour”. He asked the Prime Minister: “As we celebrate the festival of Hanukkah, does my Right Hon. Friend agree that there could be no better place for the National Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre than alongside this Palace of Westminster, to stand as a permanent memorial to the horrors of the ultimate of antisemitism?”

The Prime Minister said in response: “I commend Hannah for the contribution she is making and has made over the years in bringing home to people the absolute horrors of the Holocaust. I commend the work of the Holocaust Educational Trust, which does important work up and down our country”.

She asserted: “I absolutely agree with my Hon. Friend that there is no better place for the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre to be than right next to our Parliament. What is important is that this is not just a memorial; it is a learning centre and it will be educating young people and others about the horrors of man’s inhumanity to man”.

Click here to watch the exchange in full.

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