MORE YELLOW CANDLES NEXT YEAR

ORGANISERS of the Yellow Candle Project, remembering Holocaust victims on Yom Hashoah, hope next year to double the number of candles distributed. But this will require project leaders to raise £25,000.

Thirteen thousand candles were lit across the UK through the initiative, long-established in America and introduced to the UK last year by Masorti Judaism.

Paul Harris, chair of the UK project, would “like to see nonJewish schools and organisations getting involved. It is important that remembering the victims of the Holocaust is not just a Jewish community project.”

The candles — each distributed with information about a Holocaust victim — were given to more than 50 organisations across the community.

“This year, we were funded by an individual donor who gave us £11,000. The whole point of the project is that we want to be able to give the candles out for free,” Mr Harris said.

“Extra money would allow us to make more candles and market the project on a bigger scale.”

He urged people to support the project’s expansion by donating through its fundraising page.

Thousands of people posted images of their lit candles on social media. Jeremy Corbyn was among those who lit a candle.

ROSA DOHERTY