COMMUNITY leaders came together to remember victims of the Holocaust at a memorial service in Kidderminster.

The service was held at the Holocaust Memorial Stone outside St Mary and All Saints Church on Sunday.

Prayers were read out by religious figures in the community, including Rachel Cobon of Trinity Methodist Church, and Reverend Charles Duncombe of St Ambrose's Catholic Church. 

A wreath was laid by the head boy and head girl of King Charles I School to remember children who died in the Holocaust. 

Councillor Frank Oborski and Wyre Forest MP also spoke at the service, as well as Valerie Harrison of the Jewish community.

Councillor Oborski said: "I'm grateful to those that came. Quite a large number of people remembered the Jewish tradition of bringing a small pebble.

"I'm grateful to Mark Garnier for an uplifting speech".

Saturday marked Holocaust Memorial Day, remembers the millions of lives lost to genocide.

Originally created to remember the six million Jewish people murdered during the Holocaust, organisers at Holocaust Memorial Day Trust share that it is also for all those lives lost in genocides.

Those lost in Holocaust, under Nazi Prosecution, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur genocide are remembered.

Every year the day has a theme, with this year being Fragility of Freedom, which the trust says allows all to "reflect on how freedom is fragile and vulnerable to abuse."