British schools to get Holocaust outing February 4, 2008 - 1:42PM Sydney Morning Herald Britain will help pay for two students from every school in England to visit Auschwitz to learn about the Holocaust, the Government has announced. The sixth-form students, typically between 16 and 18 years old, will meet survivors of the Holocaust and be shown the camp's barracks, see inmates' registration documents, and piles of victims' clothes, shoes and hair. Founded in 1947 at the site of the Nazi-era death camp, the Polish state-run Memorial and Museum at Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oswiecim, received 1.22 million visitors in 2007. Historians estimate 1.1 million people died at the hands of Poland's German occupiers at Auschwitz-Birkenau between 1940 and 1945, either asphyxiated with Zyklon B gas in the notorious gas chambers or from starvation, disease or exhaustion. "The Holocaust was one of the most significant events in world history," junior education minister Jim Knight said. "Six million people died not for what they had done but simply for who they were. What strikes me is the sheer scale of it and how industrialised and mechanised the process of killing people became at Auschwitz. "It was not hot-blooded brutality. It happened in a very planned way, with some people designing the process of death and others carrying it out. Every young person should have an understanding of this." The program is set to last an initial period of three years, and, of the £300 ($650) that each trip will cost, the Government will contribute £200, with schools expected to raise the remaining £100. The trips will last one day, with students leaving early in the morning and arriving home late at night. AFP . <http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=11648958/grpspId=1705447214/msgI d=54724/stime=1202143715/nc1=3848614/nc2=4836044/nc3=5170417> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
