David Cameron met an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor yesterday ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day.

Trude Levi, 86, visited the Prime Minister in Downing Street as part of a delegation from the Holocaust Educational Trust.

Mr Cameron signed the trust’s Book of Commitment, which is signed by hundreds of MPs every year as a pledge to fight prejudice and hatred.

Born in Hungary, Ms Levi was sent to Auschwitz with her mother and father in July 1944. Her mother was immediately gassed but she and her father were forced to work.

She was later sent as a slave labourer to a munitions factory in the German town of Hessisch-Lichtenau.

Mr Cameron said: “It’s a huge honour to meet someone who has been through all that and is determined through your presence to remind people.

“Living examples like you are incredibly important.”

Ms Levi, who became a British citizen in 1958, said: “I have always felt it was so important to relate what happened to me in the Holocaust in the hope it will make future generations think about the consequences of prejudice and discrimination and help prevent it happening again.

“It is important on Holocaust Memorial Day that we remember all those who lost their lives but we should also remember the beauty of this world and ensure we do everything we can to safeguard it.

“We are all individuals with feelings and sensibilities and we should treasure those differences and respect each other for them.”

Holocaust Memorial Day is tomorrow, the 66th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

In the Book of Commitment, the Prime Minister wrote: “Far from the passing of years and the fact that there are now fewer survivors left meaning this is less significant – it is in fact more important than ever that we recall what happened and the terrible consequences.”