National Holocaust Memorial Day

One of the ways in which the western world is reminded of man's inhumane treatment of man is through the commemoration of the Holocaust. Each year two sixth formers from JAGS are invited to visit Auschwitz as part of the Holocaust Education Trust's programme. Was there ever a more powerful lesson?

Laetitia Lloyd Davies and Victoria Pearce shared their response in a moving whole school Assembly. This letter from a survivor encapsulates their message:

Dear Teacher,
I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My
eyes saw what no man should witness:

       Gas chambers built by learned engineers; 
       Children poisoned by educated physicians;
       Infants killed by trained nurses;
       Women and babies shot and burned by high
       school and college graduates.

So I am suspicious of education.
My request is: help your students become
human. Your efforts must never produce
learned monsters, skilled psychopaths, educated
Eichmanns. Reading, writing, arithmetic
are important only if they serve to make
our children more human

Click here to read a transcript of their words.                     Click here for more photos of their display.