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Eva Clarke BEM was born under unimaginably harrowing circumstances in the final days of World War II. Her birth, on 29 April 1945, just outside the gates of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, came just one day after the Nazis had run out of gas for the chambers and less than a week before liberation by the US Army.

‘Who would have thought that my journey would take me from the hell of Auschwitz to tea at Buckingham Palace?!’ Attending a Royal Garden Party with Lily is a memory that will stay with me forever, and one that I will always treasure.

Light the Darkness was marked across the UK - and beyond - for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) on 27 January. From 8pm, iconic landmarks were lit up in purple as part of the collective commemoration.