Published: Thursday, 30th October, 2008 08:25
Teens’ tribute at Auschwitz
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MUSSELBURGH Grammar pupils experienced a harrowing visit to the infamous Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
About 25 students – aged between 14 and 17 years – took part in the educational trip to Poland during the October holiday as part of a project aimed at developing values.
During the five-day excursion, pupils visited the 600-year-old Wieliczka Salt Mines as well as the 800-year-old Jewish district of Kazimierz, culminating in a “deeply moving” visit to Auschwitz, where more than one million people where murdered.
The students left a floral tribute on behalf of the community of Musselburgh at the place of memory in Birkenau, Auschwitz, as a mark of respect for the innocents who died there.
“Pupils were deeply moved by the nature of what they witnessed and realised that the scale and depth of such cruelty could never be understood simply by reading school textbooks,” said Mary Bovill, the school’s head of English and project organiser.
Following the emotional concentration camp tour, the county teenagers spent a day with KEN High school pupils in Kalwaria, with whom they had exchanged letters the previous school term.
l Musselburgh Grammar pupils, during their visit to Poland, experienced a “deeply moving” tour of Auschwitz.
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