Our Holocaust Hero: Coward  

Yesterday I received some great news.The Holocaust Educational Trust wrote to me to thank me for my efforts in helping to gain official posthumous recognition for heroes of the Holocaust, including Edmonton's own Sergeant Charles Coward.His family - along with the relatives of 25 other British men and women who undertook exceptional acts of bravery in order to aid or rescue people persecuted during the Holocaust - were invited for lunch at the Foreign Office and then an awards ceremony at 10 Downing Street.The award they were collecting was newly created, following campaigns by the Holocaust Educational Trust, MPs and members of the public, and is a solid silver disk bearing the inscription "in the service of humanity." It is long-overdue, but now it's here it sets a powerful example for future generations of what courage really is.Some of you local readers may have seen the blue plaque...