‘We must never forget Holocaust’

Mar 20 2008 by Hazel Ettienne, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

AN emotive account of a student visit to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz was given at Shelley College.

Sixth formers Emma Wordsworth and Yasmin Shoghi gave an emotive talk about the trip last month with history teacher David Miller.

During the 48-hour tour the students lit candles either side of the train tracks which brought victims into the camp, in Nazi-occupied Poland, and also prayed with Rabbi Barry Marcus.

They also saw two tons of human hair, shaved from the heads of Jews and used to make German carpets.

“The trip taught us that we should never forget the past, indeed we should learn from it to ensure atrocities such as this are not repeated,” they said.

The visit was partly funded by the College and partly funded by the British Government as part of a national initiative aimed at highlighting the Holocaust.