The Holocaust - Learning Never To Forget
As part of our commitment to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, a member of the SEJ team accompanied a school group on a trip to Auschwitz in 2011. Featured below is a first-hand account of his experience and the history of the Holocaust.
An extract of this article was featured in the February 2012 edition of the Scottish Educational Journal.
Auschwitz – the very name of the place is enough to send a cold shiver down the spine...Find out more.
To help prepare pupils for what they will experience, the Holocaust Educational Trust runs an extens...Find out more.
So it was that a very well prepared group – of Holocaust Educational Trust staff and volunteer educa...Find out more.
Auschwitz I was the first camp to open in 1940, and was primarily a concentration camp....Find out more.
We visit the hospital block, where the now infamous camp Doctor, Joseph Mengele, carried out horrifi...Find out more.
Now, we reach the point in the visit where we have been warned to expect that our emotional confusio...Find out more.
Our guide now leads us into one of the few areas in the Holocaust Musuem where photography is not pe...Find out more.
The extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was created as a means to deliver the Nazis’ desired ‘f...Find out more.
Upon passing through the stone archway that marks the entrance to the camp, the first thing that str...Find out more.
Our Polish guide leads us off the platform, and we walk along a narrow channel surrounded on both si...Find out more.
On arrival at the trees, the victims of the gas chambers would be told to strip naked. ...Find out more.
It has been a long day for our group, and everyone is mentally, physically and emotionally exhausted...Find out more.
With each passing year, we lose more and more of the men and women who were able to survive the Holo...Find out more.
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