Devon gathers to remember victims of Holocaust

Her mother, a Polish Jew, was imprisoned in various concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau.

While she survived the war, her husband and many other relatives were murdered.

Mrs Hollinsworth, who moved to Carbis Bay, Cornwall, in 2019, speaks to students throughout the county’s secondary schools about the Holocaust.

She told the BBC: “I think back to everything that mummy went through, and all the family that she lost, and all the goodness that was lost.”

Mrs Hollinsworth said her mother had not revealed her full story to the family until much later in her life to shield them, and because “she also wanted to focus on building a better life and hope for the future”.

She said it was “hugely important” to “preserve those stories of the Holocaust” through events such as Holocaust Memorial Day for that future generations.