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David Cameron: "Meeting you all makes me realise what a sacred task the Holocaust Commission has to carry
out, because there will be a time when it won't be possible for Survivors to go in to
our schools and to talk about their experiences, and to make sure we learn the lessons of the
dreadful events that happened. And so the sacred task is to think how are we best going
to remember, to commemorate, and to educate future generations of children?" Eva Clarke: "Well it's
very very important to remember and to commemorate all those people who died, who were killed
in the Holocaust, and to remember our families, but also to remember all those people who've
never ever had one single person remember them, because all their families were killed
and all their communities were destroyed. And the only way that people live on in through
our remembering of them." Susan Pollack: "My memory is quite vivid about Auschwitz. Certainly at the time
of arrival. It was dark. Whether it was always that, that was a planned way of increasing
the terror, perhaps, I think it might have been. We were kind of glad to arrive because
the majority of us, including babies and small children, had suffocated in the cattle trains,
there was no air. So when the doors opened up, we kind of, we thought, we were relived.
The terror immediately invaded in our psyche, where the Germans, the Nazis, had been waiting,
and there were other survivors there who had been there some time, they'd go, they whispered,
"Don't say you're younger than Fifteen years old." They spoke to us in Hungarian, because
that a cut off age, and we would have been sent immediately to the gas chamber." Ed Balls MP: "The Holocaust
was a defining, maybe the defining event of the Twentieth Century, but in the Twenty-First
Century it's so important that we continue to remember and learn the lessons for the
future, and I think the Prime Minister's proposal, to have this commission, is a very exciting
and important prospect and proposal I'm very honoured to be asked to be on this commission.
I think we've got very very important work, and I hope in a hundred or two hundred years
people will look back and say we did a good job." David Cameron: "The Holocaust Commission, chaired by
Mick Davis, with all those people on it, and this government ready to help and politicians
of all parties ready to help. We will not let you down. Tell us what you think we should
do, and let us make sure we commemorate these dreadful events and make sure that here in
Britain, no one ever forgets what happened, and we swear together, never again." Susan Pollack: "The physical
recovery wasn't as difficult in my case. The mental and emotional was something else, it
takes a lifetime. And nor do I want to let it go."