A short service will take place next to Highbridge’s Frank Foley Statue in Market Street on Sunday (January 27th) to commemorate World Holocaust Day.

Highbridge War Memorial Trust is organising the service at 12 noon, which will be conducted by members of the Highbridge Clergy.

Wreaths will be laid at the statue in Market Street by residents, including the Chairman of Sedgemoor District Council on behalf of the two towns.

All will be welcome to join the event and light refreshments will be served afterwards at Southwell House.

Highbridge-born Frank Foley was employed as a Passport Control Officer in Berlin from 1920 until 1939.

In his role, he was able to help hundreds of Jews escape from Nazi Germany before the outbreak of World War Two.

He had no diplomatic immunity and put himself at great risk by helping to save the lives of 10,000 Jews.

It comes in a week when Burnham-On-Sea.com reported that a Highbridge war hero Frank Foley statue has been unveiled by the Foreign Secretary.

 

 
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