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PUPILS from Gower- ton and Bishop Gore schools joined others from across Wales on a trip to the Nazi concentration and death camps in Poland.
The visit was organised by the Holocaust Trust, which was set up to educate young people about the lessons to be learnt from the terrible event in history.
After learning about the atrocities which occurred, students will now become ambassadors for the trust and share their experiences with their schools and communities.
Chief Executive of The Holocaust Trust , Karen Pollock, said: "The Lessons from Auschwitz Project is such a vital part of our work because it gives students the chance to understand the dangers and potential effects of prejudice and racism today.
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"The inspiring work students go on to do in their local communities demonstrates the importance of the visit."
Up to 200 students flew to Poland for the day trip to the Second World War death camp.
The Holocaust Trust's Lessons from Auschwitz project, for students aged over 16, is now in its 14th year and has taken more than 18,000 students and teachers from across the UK to Auschwitz-Birkenau, as well as other guests.
The students on this latest trip were joined by Evening Post reporter Nino Williams.
2 Comments
by StefK
Saturday, March 23 2013, 5:17PM
“Please change the text so that you do NOT call the camps "Poland's Nazi camp" OR "Polish" OR "Nazi camps in Poland", OR "Nazi camp of Poland" or "(name) camp in Poland"!
As the son of a member of the Polish underground whose unit "Zoska" was acknowledged by Yad Vashem for saving 350 Jews during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising I would like to point out that referring to a German concentration camp in occupied Poland the way you did is insensitive to the families of the millions of ethnic Poles who were killed, forced into slave labor, tortured, taken away from their families, maimed, terrorized, burned, bludgeoned, turned into soap, starved, etc. during the brutal and inhuman occupation of Poland by Germany.
The camps were in German occupied Poland and were created by German Nazis in the name of "Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles" and "Lebensraum" for Germans!
If you MUST refer to Poland, Poles or Polish in association with these horrific places
in which Poles also suffered purely because of their ethnic background then you must clearly identify the victimization of the Poles, which , of course, you did not, AND/OR clearly identify the ethnic identification of those who designed, created and ran them, namely Germans, which you also did not do. Otherwise, leave Poland out of the article!
FYI. The proper reference to the camps would be one of the following:
- Museum/Memorial of the former GERMAN camp in PRESENT DAY Poland
- Museum/Memorial of the former GERMAN NAZI camp in PRESENT DAY Poland
- GERMAN camp in occupied Poland
- GERMAN Nazi camp in occupied Poland
- GERMAN camp in Nazi occupied Poland
- Nazi camp in GERMAN occupied Poland
- GERMAN Nazi camp in German occupied Poland”
by deWoldan
Friday, March 22 2013, 11:26PM
“"PUPILS from Gower- ton and Bishop Gore schools joined others from across Wales on a trip to the Nazi concentration and death camps in Poland."
Nowhere does this article make clear that [a] the camps were set up by and run by German Nazis (there were other Nazis in Europe, but none in Poland), and [b] The camps were set up on Polish territory then invaded and occupied by Germany, and [c] Auschwitz was in a zone of occupied Polish territory that had been incorporated directly into the Reich - so it was located in Germany.
If these facts are missing from the article, one can only assume they were not made clear to the students on the trip.”