A special event commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day is being held at Haverfordwest’s Pembrokeshire College on Saturday, January 27.

The event, organised by Cleddau Community Arts, runs from 12-3pm.

Holocaust Memorial Day marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, and remembers the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust and everyone killed in the more recent genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

The theme of this year’s commemoration - 79 years since the liberation of Auschwitz - is Fragility of Freedom; in every genocide that has taken place, those who are targeted for persecution have had their freedom restricted and removed, before many of them are murdered, often a subtle, slow process.

There is always a set of circumstances which occur, or which are created, to build the climate in which genocide can take place and in which perpetrator regimes can remove the freedoms of those they are targeting.

The organisers have stressed the event at Pembrokeshire College is non-political, with all religions welcome.

Anyone who wishes to help at the event  should email here or call 979 987 595.

As in previous years, Pembrokeshire County Council’s County Hall will be illuminated in remembrance on January 27.

Local Holocaust remembrance organiser is also asking people to light a candle and put it in their window on Saturday, January 27 to mark the occasion.

The run-up to the Holocaust has been the subject of a recent film, One Life, in which British stockbroker Sir Nicholas Winton – played by Oscar winner Sir Anthony Hopkins - saved hundreds of, mainly Jewish, Czech children from the Nazis following a visit to Prague at the end of 1938.

London-born humanitarian Sir Nicholas worked alongside volunteers as well as his mother, played in the film by Helena Bonham Carter, to bring 669 children to the UK as part of the Kindertransport efforts.

The story of Sir Nicholas, who died in 2015 at the age of 106, was brought to the wider public’s attention by Dame Esther Rantzen in 1988 during a screening of the programme That’s Life.

The Western Telegraph has previously joined pupils from Pembrokeshire in visiting Auschwitz, as part of the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Lessons from Auschwitz project.

Pupils’ experiences of their harrowing visit may be seen here.