Victims of the Holocaust were remembered at a special ceremony held in Clacton's Sunken Rose Garden.

Tendring District Councillor Nick Turner accompanied members of the Colchester and District Jewish Community to the garden on Marine Parade West on Friday morning (Jan 27).

The annual ceremony has been staged by the Council for the past six years as part of nationwide events to pay tribute to victims.

Holocaust Memorial Day has been commemorated throughout the country for more than ten years.

Cllr Turner said that he was honoured to have been asked to stand in for the Council's Chairman Alan Goggin and represent TDC at the ceremony with members of the Jewish Community.

"This day is always an opportunity for us to think back and reflect on the horrific and devastating persecution that took place under Nazi racial and social policy," he said.

"We must learn the lessons from what has happened in the past and try to ensure that nothing like it ever happens again and that there is a safer future for us all."

In 2007 TDC planted a white rose bush on the seafront site and the following year a specially-commissioned plaque was set in the ground alongside the rose bush.

The Council currently has a poster display remembering the Holocaust in the foyer of Clacton Town Hall.

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