A day at Auschwitz

posted by: Nick | on: Monday, 4 February 2008, 08:47

The Department of Schools has just announced that they are funding a project to take two young people from every sixth form in the country to Auschwitz as a bid to foster greater understanding of the Holocaust and other genocides.

I went on a trip organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust (www.het.org.uk) a couple of years ago and I have to say I found it a very moving and motivating experience. It really does put everything I do in my life into perspective.

The fact that it was minus 9 and snow was several inches think probably made it all the more haunting.