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.
First picket of the week gathering at Glasgow Caledonian University Tuesday 10th November. EIS and UCU out on strike today to defend jobs. SAVE THE 100! #GCU @EISUnion @UCUScotland
Continued strike action at GCU to protect jobs and quality education.
No compulsory redundancies at GCU, save the 100!
Join our picket we'll be here until 11!!
EIS, TUC and STUC Write to Princess Royal, Scottish and UK Governments over Continuing Disputes at City of Glasgow College
