Yom HaShoah is an emotional day for Hadassa Kessler, Operations Director, whose late grandfather survived Auschwitz.

She said: “The inhumanity shown to people with disabilities, coupled with my own family history makes Yom HaShoah an extremely moving day.

“When my grandfather passed away, he requested that the number on his camp tattoo should be on his gravestone, so future generations would ask and remember.

“Each year, my grandfather celebrated his liberation from Buchenwald on April 11th as his ‘birthday’. The family gathered together for a liberation dinner.

“Despite what he had been through, my grandfather was always positive and found so much joy in his life and his family. I remember my family who perished. Shlomo Elimelech and Devorah,  Boruch Yehoshua, Yehuda Aryeh, Chaya Malka and Yosef Matisyahu. May their memories be a blessing.”