Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has called for community members to be "a new generation of heroes", prepared to take up the educational baton from Holocaust survivors.
In an emotional address to more than 3,000 people at the national Yom HaShoah commemoration at Barnet Copthall Stadium in north London on Sunday, Rabbi Mirvis said that "throughout our schools, our cheders, our synagogues, there are shadows. There were more than one million children among the dead who never lived to raise families. And for the vast majority, there is no one to say Kaddish for them."
Although Holocaust survivors were "a remarkable resource for our society, they will not live forever.
"We are the ones who must come forward and spread the message so the Shoah may never be forgotten. We owe it to the six million, to our brave survivors and to the children who perished in the Shoah - the shadows who will never leave us."
