Holocaust Memorial centre near Newark hears from survivors of the atrocity

It one of the darkest events in human history and today the National Holocaust centre near Newark will be holding events to remember the millions of people who died in Nazi concentration camps.

It's Holocaust Memorial day.

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

It marks 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.

Around 6 million Jewish people lost their lives

Today local schools and guests will hear from survivors at the centre.

We spoke Mark Rusling who's the Director of Learning.

He told us: "This was the genocide that took place over the widest geographical space."

"Hitler set out very very deliberately and systematically to kill every single man. woman and child who were Jewish wherever they were found."

Everyone involved in the Holocaust was an ordinary person

"90 per cent of Jewish children were killed and at the end of the Holocaust two thirds of European Jewish people had been eradicated and the sheer scale is almost impossible to comprehend. that's 6 million people."

"What we're looking to do is look inside themselves."

"22 European countries including our own were part of this."

"22 provided perpetrators, bystanders, victims, survivors."

"Everybody in the holocaust was an ordinary person."