Aggie and I were offered the chance to go to Auschwitz in Poland for the day as part of the government organised ‘Lessons from Auschwitz’, or ‘LFA’ project. The aim of this scheme is to allow two people to go and have the experience of Auschwitz first hand, and then tell their peers and communities about their trip, therefore educating and passing the messages and lessons learnt from the day to a larger group. It is based on the hypothesis that ‘hearing is not like seeing.’
The aims of the LFA project are,
· To enrich understanding of the holocaust and the role played by such camps as Auschwitz-Birkenau
· To appreciate that all involved in the holocaust were individual human beings
· To begin to learn the lessons of the Holocaust so that we may pass them on to others and use these lessons in our everyday lives.
We went on the 31st March 2011, and had an introduction seminar where we were prepared for what we would experience before we went, and a follow up seminar afterwards to discuss what we saw and what we were going to do next.
-Sarah
-Sarah
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