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Auschwitz visit

Sixth Form students James Fyvie and Charlotte Bean travelled with teacher Sam Stacey to visit the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

Sixth Form students James Fyvie and Charlotte Bean travelled with teacher Sam Stacey to visit the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

During the trip, the group visited two of three parts of the concentration camp – Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II – Birkenau.

The CBA group travelled to Poland with students and staff from other local schools as part of the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Lessons from Auschwitz project.

Mrs Stacey said: “Some parts were almost set up like a museum. In Auschwitz I we saw the gas chambers, the firing wall and the gallows where prisoners who tried to escape were hanged.

“People believed they would need their belongings at Auschwitz so we saw lots of suitcases with names and dates of birth on them, some for children who were only five-years-old.

“It was harrowing and very emotionally disturbing.

“The whole purpose was to go away and educate others so it can never happen again.”

Charlotte said: “I’m really glad I went but it was awful. I couldn’t have imagined it until I went there, it stays with you. I think it’s a place everyone should go to, but you can’t prepare yourself.”