Renewed plans for Holocaust Centre in the UK rejected by parliament  

RELIGIONS NEWS AGENCY (REDNA) – Baroness Ruth Deech has written an article in the latest edition of House magazine, urging members to oppose the Prime Minister’s backing for a Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre in Victoria Tower Gardens next to the houses of parliament.

Jewish News reports she said the plans have been met with “the disappointment of many, not least within the Jewish community and Holocaust survivors”.

The plans have been fiercely contested and were judged unlawful by the High Court following a legal challenge by the London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust.

But in February, the government introduced the Holocaust Memorial Bill to repeal the protection given to the gardens.

Baroness Deech, who is Jewish, rejects the claim that just seven per cent of space in the gardens will be lost as misleading and says the site will overshadow the Buxton memorial to slavery abolition.