HOLOCAUST Memorial Day will be marked in York at 6pm on Sunday at Clifford’s Tower with a candlelit ceremony of prayer, the laying of stones and traditional Jewish music played by local clarinettist Lesley Shatzberger.

Those taking part will then move on to the Friends’ Meeting House in Friargate, where Riding Lights Theatre Company will hold a reading concerning the story of a group of York residents preparing to welcome refugee children from the Kindertransport Scheme at the onset of the Second World War, which has subsequently led to York being recognised nationally as a City of Sanctuary.