Students from every school in Britain to visit Auschwitz
AFP, February, 2008
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LONDON (AFP) — 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, the government announced on Monday.
The sixth-form students, who are typically between 16 and 18 years old, will meet with survivors of the Holocaust, and will be shown the camp's barracks, see inmates' registration documents, and piles of victims' clothes, shoes and hair.
Founded in 1947 at the site of the Nazi-era death camp, the state-run Memorial and Museum at Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oswiecim, received 1.22 million visitors in 2007.
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Historians estimate 1.1 million people died at the hands of Poland's German occupiers at Auschwitz-Birkenau between 1940 and 1945, either asphyxiated with Zyklon B gas in the notorious gas chambers or from starvation, disease or exhaustion. ...
