Has Gordon saved the day?

Jul 8 2009 Harrow Observer

Acting on past events

THE feelings experienced by the two students who visited Auschwitz shows just how important it is for younger generations to learn about the horror of the second world war genocide.

They talk of how the trip profoundly affected them and helped to humanise a place and the terrible practices they had previously only read about.

Seeing at first hand the scale and savagery of the way the Nazis brought about the death of millions of Jews, the students were reminded how important it is to be proactive to prevent such a thing happening again rather than sitting back and merely acknowledging that it was a dark period in Western Europe's modern history.

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