These images and were taken by YEP snapper Steve Riding when he joined a city delegation on a journey of remembrance and defiance to the concentration camp in Poland in September 2004. The majority of the 180-strong delegation were Jewish and many had relatives slaughtered by the Nazis in mass shootings and gas chambers. They included Leeds-based survivor Arek Hersh. READ MORE: Intriguing pictures show life in Leeds during the 1950s
How a trip from Leeds to Auschwitz-Birkenau brought home the horrors of the Holocaust
By Andrew Hutchinson
Published 27th Jan 2020, 11:00 BST
Updated 31st Jan 2020, 08:26 BST
They are the moving and poignant photos which bring into focus the horror of the Holocaust.