'Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.' Deborah Meier
'Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.' Deborah Meier
Published: 28-01-2010
During October half-term, we travelled to Poland, for a day trip to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Many of the sights were extremely shocking and it was hard to come to terms with the fact that we were standing in the same place where six million Jews had been exterminated.
It was a very moving and daunting place. It felt almost wrong that we were looking around and taking photos. There was a haunted feeling to the surroundings, like we were being watched. The fact that we were standing where many innocent lives were extinguished, seemed unreal.
To us, it seemed unimaginable that an event like this could have happened on such a scale, but the fact that it did happen and we were there in the same place, felt like we were living their nightmare.
It is extremely important that we pass our knowledge onto others to make them aware of the horrors of the Holocaust, especially those atrocities which occurred in the concentration camps, in order to prevent people acting disrespectfully towards its survivors and victims. We must also work to ensure that we learn from the past as we look to the future.
Kim Jones & Sophia Michaels, LVI