David Miliband spoke at an event marking the 75th anniversary of the Kindertransport.
In a emotional address to the 600-strong extended Kindertransport family, the former foreign secretary David Miliband, the eldest son of Jewish immigrants, said he had "very personal reasons" to celebrate the lives and contributions of Holocaust survivors. His father and grandfather escaped to Britain in 1940, and his grandmother was sheltered by a Catholic farmer in Belgium. "As the chain of memory is broken, so history and its lessons become more important," he said. "When we ask whose responsibility is it to save lives, the answer must be: ours."
Miliband said that in taking up his new job as president of the New York-based charity International Rescue Committee, founded by the Jewish refugee Albert Einstein, he felt he was "in a small way repaying a personal debt to those who helped my parents".
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/23/kindertransport-75th-anniversary-second-world-war
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