Britain - Students from every school in Britain to visit Auschwitz

photo shows the main gate entering the Nazi Auschwitz death camp at sunrise. Britain will help fund two students from every school in England to visit Auschwitz to learn about the Holocaust, in a bid to help teach the lessons of the genocide to the younger generation

Two pupils from every school in England are to visit Auschwitz in a Government-funded initiative to spread understanding of the Holocaust among the younger generation, the Department for Schools has said.

Teenagers chosen for the visits will meet survivors of the Nazi concentration camp where more than a million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and other persecuted minorities were killed during the Second World War.

They will be shown around the camp's barracks, gas chambers and crematoria, and see documentation and piles of victims' shoes, clothes and hair.

Announcing the £4.65 million programme, schools minister Jim Knight said he hoped the students, aged 16 to 18, would help to educate their classmates on their return home by giving their own accounts of their experience.

The visits to Auschwitz will be preceded by seminars in which students will hear testimony from a survivor of the camp.

Source: www.express.co.uk

Date: February 4, 2008

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