More than 100 people turned out at Oxford's Town Hall last night to say they did not want BNP leader Nick Griffin and Holocaust denier David Irving to speak in the city.

Mr Irving, once jailed for denying millions of Jews were executed by the Nazis, and Mr Griffin are due to speak at the Oxford Union's Free Speech Forum on Monday.

Lord Mayor John Tanner chaired the debate and sent out a clear message with the support of the city council: "What we want is no platform for fascism."

Holocaust survivor Mala Tribich then told the meeting of her experiences at the hands of Nazi Germany.

Talking of her arrival at the notorious Belsen concentration camp, she said: "There were bodies everywhere, huge piles of twisted decaying corpses."

She was liberated from the camp in April 1945, but later found out that her brother was the only other member of her family to survive.

She said inviting Mr Irving was an insult to Holocaust survivors and their families.

Weyman Bennett, joint secretary of Unite Against Fascism, said: "The right to life comes above freedom of speech.

"If someone says 'I want to debate your freedom to exist', that's not a debate, it's a threat.

"If they Griffin and Irving are given the respectability of a platform, they will try to destroy everything we stand for."

A larger demonstration is expected during the debate on Monday, but members of the Oxford Union will vote on Friday on whether they want to go ahead with the invitation to the pair.