IN PICTURES: East Midlands students visit Auschwitz

By Danielle Andrews
Published 4th Mar 2019, 10:44 BST
Updated 4th Mar 2019, 11:47 BST

Students from post-16 centres across the East Midlands visited the museum that stands at the former concentration camp, Auschwitz-Berkenau.

They were flown to the museum in Poland by the Holocaust Educational Trust, which aims to educate the next generation about the horrors of the Holocaust.

Students at Berkenau, or Auschwitz IIplaceholder image
Students at Berkenau, or Auschwitz II

Read about the trip here: Auschwitz trip brings horrors of Holocaust to life for Mansfield students

Students visit the gas chambersplaceholder image
Students visit the gas chambers
The museum stands as testimony to the depths that humanity sank to during the Second World Warplaceholder image
The museum stands as testimony to the depths that humanity sank to during the Second World War
Photographs of children from the camp line the walls, along with clothes that were found at the former concentration camp.placeholder image
Photographs of children from the camp line the walls, along with clothes that were found at the former concentration camp.
Students learn about the Holocaust in front of the partly demolished crematoriumplaceholder image
Students learn about the Holocaust in front of the partly demolished crematorium
Students walked in the footsteps of of those who arrived at the campplaceholder image
Students walked in the footsteps of of those who arrived at the camp
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