Live-streamed Holocaust Memorial Day event in Edinburgh will feature survivor speaking live from New York City

Inge Auerbacher will speak live from New York as part of Edinburgh's online event

The association will be adapting to the pandemic by holding a live programme on Facebook starting at 6pm.

Participants will watch Inge Auerbacher, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, speak live from New York City.

Auerbacher is the author of three books narrating her traumatic experiences as a child in a concentration camp.

Other speakers will include Edinburgh Lord Provost Frank Ross and Aileen Campbell, Scottish Government Secretary for Faith, Communities and Local Government.

For many years, EIFA has officially commemorated Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Capital, but going virtual for the first time gives the opportunity to host a survivor of the Jewish Holocaust live from New York City while being interviewed by school pupils from both Rwanda and Edinburgh.

Rwanda witnessed one of the bloodiest genocides in history, in 1994, which saw over half a million Tutsis murdered.

Tune into the programme at https://www.facebook.com/EIFA.page/.

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