A HOLOCAUST survivor, who still remembers the sight of burning synagogues in his home town of Vienna in the 1930s, recounted his harrowing story the pupils at Abbeyfield School.

Harry Bibring visited the school last week through the Holocaust Education Trust to share his stories with the pupils and remind them not to "get into any type of prejudice which leads to hate."

The 93-year-old grew up in Vienna, where in 1938, after the Anschluss, he was forced to leave his school and attend a school that would teach only Jewish children. Months later, his father's menswear business was looted and destroyed during Kristallnacht.

Mr Bibring and his sister were eventually able to escape to Britain on the Kindertransport but sadly his father died in 1940 of a heart attack and his mother was deported to and killed at Sobibór death camp in German-occupied Poland in 1942.

Keeran Hayward, a 14-year-old pupil, said: “It was really engrossing. Harry had an accent I had never heard before and he made you feel as if you were there in the past with him.

"It was pretty upsetting because you could imagine yourself going through it.”