Visiting Auschwitz p9
Foundation Stones p4
Events p11
Liberation of Belsen p13
Holocaust Memorial Day The awareness raising newspaper written by young people for our local community
January 2020
“Stand Together!”
Survivors of the Holocaust and genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda speak to local school pupils at Hampton School recently
Welcome to our newspaper. Written by local young people, we hope that it will help raise awareness in our local community of the upcoming Holocaust Memorial Day. Inside you’ll read pieces written by students from local schools who are standing together to lead the forthcoming commemoration.
Researching a local connection to the Holocaust p10
Whilst a range of events is planned across our community in January, students have already been learning about the Holocaust and other genocides. More than a hundred students recently came together to hear the testimony of Zigi Shipper, a Holocaust survivor, Kemal Pervanic, who survived the genocide in Bosnia & Sophie Masereka, a survivor of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwan-
Reflecting through art, poetry and animation project p2-5
da. “It was troubling to hear the horrific experiences of Zigi, Kemal and Sophie...but it made me think that we all have to act to prevent events like the Holocaust from ever happening
again.” said Luke, a Year 9 who attended the event. Continued on p2-5
A Cambodia genocide survivor visits Turing House p7