Oxfordshire schoolchildren will be marking Holocaust Memorial Day on stage with a performance entitled Hope for Humanity.

Pupils from six schools -- Cooper School, Bicester, Cheney Upper School, Oxford, Henry Box and Wood Green schools, Witney, John Mason School, Abingdon, and Wheatley Park School, Wheatley -- will be in the cast.

Holocaust Memorial Day itself is commemorated on January 27. Hope for Humanity will be staged at the Pegasus Theatre, Magdalen Road, Oxford, on Thursday, January 24, at 6.30pm.

For tickets, call 01865 722851.