Sir Peter Bazalgette, who leads the Prime Minister’s United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial Foundation, will speak at what is set to be the UK’s largest national Yom Hashoah memorial event on Sunday.
More than 3,000 tickets have been booked for the “Remember Together — We are One” commemoration at the Allianz Park stadium in north London.
The event, which is being sponsored by more than 100 communal groups, will mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the death camps.
Yom HaShoah UK chair Neil Martin confirmed that representatives from six country’s would speak at the event, alongside Board of Deputies president Vivian Wineman and Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis.