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Jewish Care cancels Ruth Deech meeting over her Shoah memorial campaigning

The charity was concerned the baroness could use a planned meeting with Holocaust survivors to lobby against the Westminster memorial

July 21, 2023 09:59
UK Holocaust Memorial
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Jewish Care has cancelled a meeting between Baroness Ruth Deech and a group of Shoah survivors over fears she would use their views in her campaign against the Westminster Holocaust memorial.

The peer said the charity had told her she was “too political” and expressed extreme disappointment over the decision.

She had planned to visit Jewish Care on Wednesday, partly in order to “ask [survivors] what they wanted by way of a memorial”.

Deech, who has described the decision to place the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre close to Parliament as “ill-considered and damaging”, said she had been intending to ask the survivors their opinions on the planned centre.