HISTORY’S most terrible crimes have been remembered by schoolchildren in Dwyfor.

Simon Brooks, chair of Porthmadog Town Council, and Deirdre Burke, a retired academic, presented 10 copies of Dyddiadur Anne Frank (Anne Frank’s Diary) and other books to Ysgol Eifionydd, Porthmadog, following a poignant assembly to mark Holocaust Memorial Day last week.

The books were financed by Porthmadog Town Council Chairman’s Fund.

Mr Brooks said: “Holocaust Memorial Day remembers the evil of the Holocaust, as well as other examples of genocide. It reminds us too of the need to reject hate and intolerance.

“Hopefully, the books we have presented to Ysgol Eifionydd will help young people locally to learn more about the Holocaust.

“I am very grateful to the school for putting on a special assembly where we talked about Anne Frank, and also about some of those who survived the Holocaust.”

Headteacher Dewi Bowen added: “It is very important that young people learn about the terrible atrocities that were committed across Europe during the Second World War and since then in places like Bosnia and Rwanda.

“Through reading books like Anne Frank’s Diary they learn to understand that the victims were ordinary young people like themselves whose lives were cut short because of fanatical racism.

“All the pupils here at Ysgol Eifionydd are very grateful for the books given by Porthmadog Town Council and the presentation given to explain the meaning of the Holocaust Memorial Day.”