Bob Norton, Holocaust Survivor

A Nottingham man who fled the Nazis aged six will take part in an event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day on Monday.

Bob Norton, who was born in 1932, will talk at the National Holocaust Centre and Museum in Laxton, Nottinghamshire about his life and warn about the dangers of anti-Jewish sentiment in parts of the world today.

The event on January 26 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, in 1945.

It will be followed by a question and answer session with the audience as well as a  memorial prayer and candle-lighting for the victims of the Holocaust

Bob, born Robert Neubauer in what was then Czechoslovakia, now lives in Nottingham.

The event start at 1pm.