Students from every school in Britain to visit Auschwitz

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Students from every school in Britain to visit Auschwitz

LONDON (AFP) - Britain will help fund two students from every school in England to visit Auschwitz to learn about the Holocaust, in a bid to help teach the lessons of the genocide to the younger generation, the government announced on Monday.

The sixth-form students, who are typically between 16 and 18 years old, will meet with survivors of the Holocaust, and will be shown the camp's barracks, see inmates' registration documents, and piles of victims' clothes, shoes and hair.

Founded in 1947 at the site of the Nazi-era death camp, the state-run Memorial and Museum at Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oswiecim, received 1.22 million visitors in 2007.

Historians estimate 1.1 million people died at the hands of Poland's German occupiers at Auschwitz-Birkenau between 1940 and 1945, either asphyxiated with Zyklon B gas in the notorious gas chambers or from starvation, disease or exhaustion...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080204/ts_afp/britaineducationpolandhistoryjewsauschwitzwwii

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1. "1.1 million people died at the hands of Poland's German occupiers "

We need to make sure that the world never looses 1.1 million people at the hands of occupiers.

That would truly be another holocaust. It's a good thing we are standing up for the causes of freedom around the world so that over a million people don't die.

So keep your eyes open for this sort of thing...

[TheDoorbellRang]

2. Too bad someone can't do to us what Eisenhower did

He forced Germans in the towns around the death camps to come see what the third reich had done. Many eyes were opened.

There are too many here in B*sh's America whose eyes are clamped shut.

[Hamlette]

3. When my son graduated from high school we took him on the concentration camp tour of Europe

the jewish cemetery in Prague and Auschwitz and point in between. Every one should go. We've been twice, I'll never forget it. None of us should.

[tomreedtoon]

4. Will they welcome the improved environment?

British schools are sex-segregated and, while American teachers psychologically abuse students, British teachers can cane their students. NO British school is like Hogwarts in reality.