An event to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of a notorious concentration camp will be held in Barnet.

More than 5,000 people, including 100 Holocaust survivors and MPs will attend the event to mark the day Allied soldiers arrived at Bergen Belsen, in south Germany, on April 19, 1945.

The event, at Barnet Copthall Stadium on Sunday at 2pm, will mark 70 years since prisoners in the camp were freed.

Youth groups and choirs from schools in the area will perform at the commemoration, the largest Holocaust memorial event that has ever taken place in the UK.

The event has been organised by the Remember Together We Are One campaign, which was launched by Yom HaSoah UK.

Yom HaShoah UK chairman Neil Martin said: “In what many are calling the last of the big anniversaries, Sunday will bring together the largest gathering ever to remember together the loss of six million and to pay tribute and say thank you to the survivors and refugees for the remarkable contributions they have made to the Jewish community and wider UK society.”

Vivan Wineman, president of the board of deputies of British Jews, said: “This year the significance of the day is greatly increased, this may be our last chance to commemorate the tragedy in the presence of the only people who can be living witnesses to it.”