Holocaust Education Trust receives £500,000

More than £500,000 is to be given to the Holocaust Educational Trust over two years to support the project Lessons from Auschwitz.
By Gregor Hollerin
Published 11th May 2013, 10:30 BST
Auschwitz 2, BirkenauAuschwitz 2, Birkenau
Auschwitz 2, Birkenau

The programme has 
allowed hundreds of 
southside pupils to travel to the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex to gain first-hand knowledge of the Holocaust.

Georgia Lanigan, a former pupil at St Ninian’s high, went on the trip and has since returned to the school to share her experiences.

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The 17-year-old said: “The organisation run the trip so well, making you experience so much in a day.

“They really manage to 
humanise the experience for you”

Stewart Maxwell MSP told The Extra: “It is imperative that future generations continue to learn from the lessons of the Second World War and remember the victims of the Holocaust.”

Eastwood MSP Ken Macintosh , who hosted a reception in the Scottish Parliament last week for the Holocaust Educational Trust, added: “I was given the opportunity to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau through an educational programme some 10 years ago.

“Their work is essential in ensuring the Holocaust has a permanent place in our collective memory.”

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