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Holocaust Memorial Day 27th January 2010

Holocaust Memorial Day was recognised this year at Clifton with a display remembering the 65th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz.

With key material provided by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust under the title “The Legacy of Hope”, Clifton in the Community library students researched and made a moving display of incidents of genocide that have occurred in their lifetimes and since the end of World War II, such as Rwanda, Kosovo, and Cambodia. Peter Stanley, a staff member in the exams team, provided valuable research for the pupils.

The pupils also made very realistic fake barbed wire for the display during Monday Afternoon Activities, aided by Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Walker. In addition two Ukrainian students, Maria and Mariya, researched the Ukrainian “Holodomor” (murder by starvation) of 1932-33, and the Armenian genocide of 1914-16, which gave Hitler the pretext for his holocaust.

The theme of “Legacy of Hope” is a request that the present generation of Clifton pupils will not allow such atrocities to happen again, through learning from the past.

29 January 2010

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