SURVIVORS from two of the 20th century's most notorious genocides will speak at a special ceremony to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

Issy Hahn who lived through the Holocaust during the Second World War and Jean Paul Mazimpaka who survived the mass murder in Rwanda during the 1990s, will talk at the annual service in the Holocaust Memorial Gardens, Valentines Park, Ilford, on Wednesday (January 27).

The event, which begins at 11am, will also feature readings and prayers from Madeleine Barnett and Susan Wolf - daughters of Mitzi Rayner - students from King Solomon High School, Rabbi Sufrin of Gants Hill's Chabad Lubavitch and Rev Ken Hyde of Broadmead Baptist Church, Woodford Green - and the laying of wreaths.