In 1945, at the age of eight, I saw the newsreel footage of Belsen concentration camp and it was unforgettable.

This week, your paper carried news of Winchmore School’s tribute to the victims of the Holocaust, who must never be forgotten (‘Keeping the memory alive’, Enfield Independent, January 28). And at the same time, I believe, we should work to resist the evil of all racial and sectarian suspicion, prejudice and hatred, which in the present day sometimes threaten to overwhelm us. It is in schools like Winchmore that our hopes must lie. Children in our wonderfully diverse city should have the right to meet each other at an early age in order to learn tolerance of all races, colours and creeds. I grew up in the west of Scotland and still struggle with the old biases I learned there. I never met a Roman Catholic until I went to university. But then I joined a choir and sang with many of them. For me, all schools in today’s dangerous world should be multi-cultural and tolerant of people of every faith, and none.

Jean Robertson-Molloy

Green Party PPC Enfield Southgate