Billingshurst students and MP visit Auschwitz
Henry Powell and Anna Batten were among 200 sixthformers from South East England on a visit organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust, and they were joined there by Horsham MP Francis Maude.
They said the visit was a unique opportunity to see what happened at Auschwitz-Birkenau, to pay respect to those who lost their lives, and to explore the universal lessons of the Holocaust.
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Hide AdThe group was shown around the camp's barracks and crematoria, and witnessed the registration documents of inmates, piles of hair, shoes, clothes and other items seized by the Nazis.
For full story see West Sussex Gazette February 25