Members of Rochford District Council, religious leaders, representatives from community organisations and schools gathered to remember the victims of the Holocaust and other atrocities.

Holocaust Memorial Day took place in Rayleigh at Rochford District Council’s specially commissioned memorial in Bellingham Lane, outside The Mill Arts & Events Centre.

Rochford District Council Chairman’s Chaplain Reverend Mike Lodge, led the service of remembrance around the Memorial to Victims of Persecution.

This was the tenth Holocaust Memorial Day, and the theme this year was “The Legacy of Hope”.