High school pupils visited a synagogue to learn more about the Holocaust.

Pupils from Year Eight at Canons High School visited Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue on January 15 to learn more about the Holocaust.

They were joined by the Mayor and Mayoress of Barnet, Matthew Offord MP, and Alderman Richard Romain, formerly of Harrow Council.

The event, led by the synagogue's youth and education departments, also included 40 volunteers from the community to answer questions and assist with a workshop based on the story of Irene Sendler, a Catholic social worker in the Warsaw ghetto who saved around 2,500 Jewish children during the war.

Marian Cohen, director of education at the synagogue, said: "As every responsible community should strive for a better future.

"EHRS feels that it is very important to engage our local communities in raising awareness of the Holocaust and denouncing racial and religious hatred which should have no place in any community."

Eva Clarke, who was born in Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria in 1945, shared her story about her life and answered questions from pupils.

The afternoon ended with the lighting of six memorial candles for the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust, and a seventh candle to remember subsequent world genocides.