Auschwitz survivor, 86, meets PM in Downing Street

Published on Monday 24 January 2011 17:34

David Cameron met an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor yesterday ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day on Thursday.

Trude Levi, 86, visited the Prime Minister in No 10 as part of a delegation from the Holocaust Educational Trust.

Born in Hungary, Mrs Levi was sent to Auschwitz with her mother and father in July 1944. Her mother was immediately gassed, and she and her father were forced to work. She was later sent as a slave labourer to a munitions factory in the German town of Hessisch-Lichtenau.

Mr Cameron told her: "It's a huge honour to meet someone who has been through all that and is determined through your presence to remind people. Living examples like you are incredibly important."

Mrs Levi, who became a British citizen in 1958, said: "I have always felt it was so important to relate what happened to me in the Holocaust in the hope it will make future generations think about the consequences of prejudice and discrimination and help prevent it happening again."