Today- 27th January, is Holocaust Memorial Day- the international day which marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz- Birkenau, which was the largest Nazi death camp. It is a time for the world to remember the atrocities committed during WW2 and to think about the lives of those people who were systematically murdered by the Nazis - including over six million Jews, members of the Roma and Sinti community, disabled people, homosexuals, communists and all the others who did not fit with Nazi ideology.

We have been marking this event across the whole of SKS, with students in KS4 learning all about the Holocaust, using a wide range of different resources in lessons including the online newspaper 'The Day', videos produced by the Holocaust Memorial Trust and written survivor testimonies. Perhaps the biggest questions posed to our students has been 'Could the Holocaust ever happen again?'