National Holocaust Centre near Newark marks International Memorial day
The event remembers the six million innocent men, women and children who lost their lives during the holocaust
Today's International Holocaust Memorial Day.
It marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp.
Six million innocent men, women and children lost their lives during the Holocaust.
We've been speaking to Marc Cave director of the National Holocaust Centre near Newark.
He says "it is probably the single greatest atrocity the world has ever seen."
"It was a systematic attempt to wipe out an entire people".
"The scale, the industrialisation of it is something that it's almost beyond belief."
"We need to think what was it that enabled that to happen".
"When we look at hate and prejudice and racism today, it's a warning from history about where those things can lead".
"Hatred is a divisive thing in society which affects all of us, it threatens democracy and the rule of law".
"We are at a tipping point right now, there are aspects of society like things said on social media which are redolent of what the Nazi propaganda was in the 1930s."