Events taking place across East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire on Holocaust memorial day

It was one of the darkest moments in human history and today events across East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire are taking place to mark Holocaust memorial day.

The world will remember the millions who died in Nazi concentration camps and those who survived.

It's the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland in 1945.

It's as the world comes together to remember those who lost their lives or even survived the devastation that affected thousands.

We should remember the sheer enormity of the numbers killed

We spoke to Nicholas Evans who's a lecturer in history at the University of Hull.

He told us: "Hull received 60 odd refugees from Nazism just before the outbreak of the war."

"Most of those were children. I was privileged to meet some of them during my work. "

"We're asked to remember Holocaust Memorial Day because of the sheer enormity of the numbers killed."

A girl left Hull and perished after she was caught up in the Holocaust

"How many people were worked in slave like conditions and how many people's lives were destroyed forever."

"This was an attempt by a Government to annihilate an entire people."

"We know of people from Hull who died in concentration camps because presumably their families had gone back to Europe to help their relatives and then got caught up in it."

"One girl certainly left Hull in 1937 and the next school she went to was in Berlin and we know she subsequently perished in the Holocaust too."