Cameron announces plan for Holocaust memorial in London

British PM David Cameron announces the construction of a Holocaust memorial at Victoria Tower Gardens in London, next to the Houses of Parliament.

The memorial “will stand beside Parliament as a permanent statement of our values as a nation,” he says, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Britain will hold an international competition for the design of the memorial, which will be built by the end of next year.

Cameron tells Parliament: “I know the whole House will want to join me in marking Holocaust Memorial Day. It is right our whole country should stand together to remember the darkest hour of humanity. Last year, on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, I said we would build a striking, prominent national memorial in London to show the importance Britain places on preserving the memory of the Holocaust.”