The Deputy Prime Minister spoke at an event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day at King's Cross Station in Central London, held by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.

'We are indeed all here to remember because if we forget of course we endanger the future by risking a repeat of the past. It's well known that guards in the Nazi concentration camps would torment their victims by saying 'no one will believe you. No one will remember. And if you say it no one will believe you or care what you have to say.'

So forgetting would be a betrayal of what those people endured in those horrific circumstances. It would be a betrayal of the values of reconciliation which is embodied in this memorial day, and it would also deprive the generations of today and of the future of the knowledge of history which is such an important inoculation for tragedies in the future.

I know a little bit myself from my own experience and from my own families of the value of remembrance. My mother spent many years with her sisters in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Indonesia. My brothers and my sister and I were aware of this as we grew up, but my mum sheltered us as small children of the horrific details, and it was only when we were older that she told us about everything she'd been through. It made a lasting impression on me, of everything she'd been through, an enormous impression on my outlook on things.

So rem.