GREENWICH Council has hosted a Holocaust Memorial Day at the town hall.

The event on January 27 marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Greenwich mayor Councillor Brian O'Sullivan opened the day, which included a reading stating the Holocaust has a place in the nation's collective memory and the council will promote education about it and other genocides.

He said: "It may have happened 60 years ago but it is vital people today learn about the unbelievable wickedness of the Nazis during the Holocaust.

"What the Nazis did should be held up as a stark warning of what humans are capable of when racism and discrimination are allowed to fester."