In January 2012 the Norfolk Jewish community was very touched by the actions of an individual and the actions of his local Church of England congregation, when they decided to commemorate the Holocaust victims by holding a memorial service.
Alan Heath, whose father was one of the American soldiers who first entered Auschwitz, picked up an acorn from beneath the big oak tree at Auschwitz. He planted it and it grew into a sapling. At a moving ceremony attended by sixty four people from all over Norfolk, the sapling was planted in the churchyard in Fulmodeston. Alex Bennett chanted the memorial prayer for the victims of the holocaust and recited the Kaddish.
