Former Yorkshire Cricketer Azeem Rafiq has admitted he had never heard of Auschwitz until he met a Holocaust survivor this week.
Mr Rafiq, who admitted to making antisemitic comments on social media 10 years ago, made the startling admission to survivor Lily Ebert in a meeting organised by Jewish News.
After hearing her story, he told the 97-year-old it was important to educate others about the Shoah “to remember, in order that events are not repeated.”
Mr Rafiq also met with Holocaust survivor Ruth Barnett MBE, who came to Britain from Berlin on a Kindertransport train in 1939 at the age of four, in a meeting organised by the JC earlier the same day.
