megan and samantha's lesson's from auschwitz (next steps) assembly
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In November last year, one of my school peers and I was lucky enough to have become part of the Holocaust Educational Trust's, 'Lessons from Auschwitz' project. This included an introduction seminar, of which we were joined by and listened to the very moving life and experience of Kitty Heart-Moxon, before, during and after the Holocaust. On the 12th of November, we visited Auschwitz with 200 other students from the South East. We are now ambassadors of Holocaust education at our school. I will never forget how poignant, muted and humbled I felt laying a candle, on the railway track, in Auschwitz-Birkenau. We constructed this PowerPoint Presentation for our Assembly's that we held for our school and sixth form. This is our next steps project.TRANSCRIPT
Shoes
Who owns a pair of these shoes?
The average person owns 5 - 10 pairs of shoes…
Any mass slaughter or reckless
destruction of life.
Hitler had a vision of a ‘perfect’ Aryan race, and wanted to promote this in Germany and Nazi occupied countries.
Any one who did not fit in to this category or were not classed as ‘desirable’ should be removed from society. (In this case exterminated)
Jews were but one targeted group, others included, Romany Gypsies, Polish Political figures, Jehovah Witness’s, Homosexuals and the Disabled (both physically and mentally).
The first concentration camps were mainly labour camps for political prisoners . However, in 1941, Jews were among those transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau for extermination (Death Camps).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpWTuxNXPCE
I have put up the video I made on YouTube so that you can access it:
Cambodia (1975-1979) Rwanda (1994) Bosnia (1992-1995) Darfur (2003)
