As part of our commitment to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, a member of the SEJ team accompanied a school group on a trip to Auschwitz in 2011. Featured below is a first-hand account of his experience and the history of the Holocaust.
To help prepare pupils for what they will experience, the Holocaust Educational Trust runs an extensive preparation programme ahead of each visit.
So it was that a very well prepared group – of Holocaust Educational Trust staff and volunteer educators, pupils, teachers and invited guests – mostly journalists – gathered at Edinburgh Airport in the very early hours of a late autumn morning.
Auschwitz I was the first camp to open in 1940, and was primarily a concentration camp.
We visit the hospital block, where the now infamous camp Doctor, Joseph Mengele, carried out horrific medical experiments on camp inmates.
Our members in the welding and fabrication department of City of Glasgow College deserve to feel safe at work with the proper air-fed RPE masks. Yet, the biggest college in Scotland refuses to provide them.
Other colleges provide air-fed RPE; why won't City of Glasgow?
Today, we held a mega picket at GCU, with special guests and faithfuls of the trade union movement, Roz Foyer and Paul Nowak. Together with striking members at GCU, we demanded an end to compulsory redundancies and to #Savethe100
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Strike day 24.
Lively picket today ahead of tomorrow's action🙌
Come along to our rally tomorrow with @ucu @ScottishTUC and @The_TUC 09.30-11am
