Holocaust survivor's lessons from life

Larry Mandon, whose talk is part of events to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, was born in Hamburg to a Jewish family. His father, one of Hitler's political opponents, was murdered on his sixth birthday. Staff and pupils at his Jewish school were imprisoned in November 1938, on Kristallnacht, and he was smuggled out of Germany through the "Kindertransport" nine months before the outbreak of World War Two.

Mr Mandon, now 83, was placed with a family in Kent and became a talented singer, performing with stars such as Ivor Novello and Noel Coward. Later, he studied psychology and worked first as a marriage counsellor and then as a hospital psychotherapist.

Mr Mandon, who wrote a book about the Holocaust entitled Stranger in my Own Town, said: "The Holocaust had a profound effect on my life and my family and it is important for young people to learn about what happened. We must never allow these things to happen again and the only way to do this is to take responsibility for who we are and what we are."