A special Assembly and a talk to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

To recognise Holocaust Memorial Day, a special Assembly was held for the 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th Form on the 80^th Anniversary since the liberation of Auschwitz. The Assembly mainly focussed on the Holocaust and some of its survivors, but it also was about remembering genocides that have taken place since the Holocaust. Sybil (4^th Form Wellesley House) read a very moving poem, and ways to remember Holocaust Memorial Day were suggested. The 3^rd Form have created an emotive display for Holocaust Memorial Day, and pupils left remembering that we have a voice to speak out against hatred and prejudice.

The 6^th Form had a fantastic talk from Rob Angell who is a volunteer from the Holocaust Education Trust. He explained how his mother was a Holocaust survivor and how he cycled to Eastern Europe to remember the route his mother took when the Nazis took her from Romania to Auschwitz in 1944. His mother survived Auschwitz as she was selected to work and taken to a work camp 100 km from Auschwitz where she remained until the end of the war.  After the war she emigrated to the UK married and never told her children until 1999 that she had been a Jew and survivor of the Holocaust. It was an incredible story and the pupils found it so interesting and moving especially with it being the 80^th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

On Holocaust Memorial Day, Rob Angell @HolocaustUK gave a moving & fascinating talk to @KSBSixthForm @KingsBruton about his mother who was a survivor of Auschwitz. It was so poignant to hear his mother’s story on the 80th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. #KSBSixthform pic.twitter.com/qGFN460Ojc

— History Department (@KSBHistory) January 28, 2025

Finally in the evening Upper Sixth Historians watched Schindler’s List, which ended off a very moving day.

Emily Simper - Deputy Head, Pastoral

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