Sydney Jews to remember Holocaust

Sydney's Jewish community will mark 70 years since the holocaust on Wednesday evening.

Assistant treasurer Josh Frydenberg will be the keynote speaker at a commemoration event at the City Recital Hall in memory of the liberation of the concentration camps in World War II.

The Righteous Among the Nations award, honouring those who saved Jews from the Nazis, will be presented by a representative of the Israeli Embassy to family members of an individual who protected Jews during the Holocaust.

"The imperative to emphasise and impart the lessons of where racial hatred can lead is today greater than ever," says NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Vic Alhadeff.

In January Mr Frydenberg was Australia's official representative to the Auschwitz liberation commemoration, where he made a sojourn to the death camp where a number of his family members died.