Holocaust Memorial Day will be marked in Lynn on Sunday with a service at the town hall.

The event will include readings by the borough mayor, Cllr Andy Bullen, and Deputy Lieutenant David Flux.

Pupils from the town’s St Martha’s Catholic Primary School Choir will take part, and readers also include children from Greyfriars Primary School, West Norfolk Police Inspector Ben Jarvis, Rev Canon Dr Mark Dimond, members of the Jewish community, police cadets and the Lynn Soroptimists.

The service will start at midday and marks the 25th year the service has been held in Lynn, from the first time a national Holocaust Day was created.

“This year’s national theme of ‘bridging generations’ is reflected in the participants and aims to ensure that as we lose living witnesses, the Holocaust is not forgotten,” a West Norfolk Council spokesperson said.

Holocaust Memorial Day itself is on January 27, the date of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945.

The Stockholm declaration saw 46 countries come together and commit to preserve the memory of those who were killed by the Nazis. Victims of subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur will also be remembered.