Holocaust Talk

It was a privilege for us to welcome Annick Lever and her husband Allen to our school today from the Holocaust Educational Trust. Annick gave year 9 a powerful personal reminder of the horrors so many experienced during the Holocaust.

Annick was born in Nazi occupied France in 1943 to a Jewish mother and Catholic father. In 1944 Annick survived the Holocaust by being smuggled out of a prison by her non-Jewish father, who was also part of the resistance. The rest of her family, including her mother, were taken by cattle train from Drancy, the main transportation camp in France, to Auschwitz-Birkenau. They did not survive and Annick later learned that her mother most certainly died on the journey. Annick shared many poignant moments from her family's history with us today and we are incredibly grateful to have had this opportunity to hear about the horrors of the Holocaust through the first-hand testimony of a survivor. The talk finished with a question and answer session. We are very proud of the questions asked by our students, it showed how well they had listened and empathised with Annick's story.

Thank you to the Holocaust Educational Trust whose aim it is to educate and engage students from across the UK, from all communities, about the Holocaust https://www.het.org.uk/