Two members of the Upper Sixth, Anthony
Simpson-Pike and Angelika Ketzer, visited
Auschwitz, with their History teacher Celia
Wolfe.
I went to Auschwitz with the purpose of
finding hope in the most despondent of places
and whilst there, I did not believe I had found
any. But, on reflection, there was something
at Auschwitz. There was hope in the prisoner
who washed and combed his hair every day,
determined to retain his humanity. There was
hope in the Czech women who sang out the
national anthem in an act of defiance against
their oppressors. But most of all, there is hope
in what we can learn from the Holocaust.
It is the future that counts and I have learnt
lessons that I will apply to mine.