VICTIMS of the Holocaust were remembered in an emotional candlelit vigil at the site of one of the most terrible events in York's history.
Students, trade unionists, travellers, Jewish people and anti-fascist campaigners were among those who gathered at Clifford's Tower last night to pay their respects to the 11 million men, women and children who died in the German Third Reich's genocide programme.
Bearing lanterns and candles, about 50 people braved the cold and walked in silence from the tower to the University of York.
Yiftach Ofek, vice-chair of the university's Jewish Society, said: "We are supporting this event in conjunction with other groups - York Unity, Unison, the York Travellers' Trust and the York University Students' Union."
The organisers chose Clifford's Tower - the site of the most notorious example of anti-Semitism in medieval England - as a particularly poignant place to start their march.
On March 16, 1190, York's small Jewish community, about 150 people, died inside the tower where they sought refuge after being attacked by a bloodthirsty mob.
Updated: 10:17 Friday, January 28, 2005
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