00:00Kanye West, who had been booked to perform at a wireless festival in July, has previously released a song called
00:08Heil Hitler, and sold T-shirts with swastikas on them.
00:13He later apologised and blamed his bipolar disorder for his behaviour.
00:18The President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Phil Rosenberg, said the board was sympathetic to mental health
00:26challenges, but the place to test that contrition was not on the main stage at the wireless festival, and that
00:35they were not prepared to let that stand.
00:37Lydia Tischler, a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor who survived both Auschwitz and Thersenstadt, also addressed 2,000 people gathered
00:48at Victoria Tower Gardens, a site which is the planned location for a new Holocaust memorial and learning centre.
00:56Miss Tischler told 125 Jewish primary school children who were gathered at the event that she was 10 years old
01:05when Hitler, without an invitation, invaded her country and started making the lives of Jews very miserable.
01:13Communities Secretary Steve Reid also addressed the crowd, saying memory doesn't survive by accident.
01:18The event also included an address from Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis.
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