Introduction to Auschwitz: On Reflection.

Auschwitz: On Reflection is run by Harrison Dent, Joe Coroneo-Seaman, Helen Jeffrey and Emily Sharman, students of Beverley Joint Sixth Form and forms part of our Next Steps Project, in continuation from our trip. Through this blog, we hope to raise awareness of the issues we feel are most relevant to contemporary Holocaust education and to encourage you, as members of the public, to consider these issues and take your education to another level...

Some of the key ideas that we will be exploring and sharing are:

• Do statistics effectively represent the lives of over 6 million Jews that died in the Holocaust?
• The bloodshed and brutality of the Holocaust is not limited to human life: the loss of life also means the loss of cultures, communities and ideas.
• The Holocaust came about in part from the persistent use of Nazi propanganda - perhaps in seeing this, we should increase awareness of the world we inhabit by challenging and critically evalutating the media.
• Societies are made of individuals; if we are to prevent the widespread murder or persecution of individuals in the future then we must start with our own everyday actions to prevent injustice.

We highly recommend that if the opportunity arises, everyone should visit this moving historical site.