A town is marking the holocaust with a memorial service on the 85th anniversary of the Kindertransport.

Burgess Hill Town Council is hosting a service at the War Memorial Garden in Church Walk to commemorate people who died during the holocaust.

This year's theme for the service, on January 29, follows the Holocaust Memorial Day's trust's theme of Fragility of Freedom.

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A spokesman for Burgess Hill Town Council said :"Freedom of not only targeted groups are removed but the freedoms of others are also restricted, preventing people from challenging the regime. Despite this, in every genocide there are those who risk their freedom to help others."

This year marks the 85th anniversary of the arrival of the Kindertransport in Burgess Hill. Between 1939 and 1941, up to 50 Jewish girls from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia stayed at Wyberlye Ladies Convalescent Home.

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The service will be multi-faith and include speakers from Amnesty International, Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue, St John the Evangelist, Burgess Hill Academy and Burgess Hill Girls.

Afterwards pupils from the schools will lay stones at the War Memorial as a symbol of remembrance.

Irene Balls, of Amnesty International, said: "Holocaust Memorial Day is a day when we not only remember specific events in the past when people were oppressed, but actually killed because of who they were. The genocide of Jews, the mass killings of Roma, Sinti, disabled people, gay people - denied human rights and murdered by the Nazi regime. Since the Nazi Holocaust there have been genocide atrocities including from Cambodia, Bosnia, Darfur and Rwanda.

"The persecution of the Rohingya people in Myanmar is current. There is a critical lesson to learn - we must never forget the evils of the past. For ours, and future generations, each and every one of us should resolve to work towards freedom and equality. Freedom is fragile; we dare not lose it."