Brown Says 1.5 Million Children Were Gassed

Imagine the sheer scale of the Holocaust. The captivity, suffering and death of six million people, 1.5 million of them children, each with family, a history and unique emotions.

Ghastly Reminders

Brown shudders when he saw the suitcases at Auschwitz.  To experience and suffering: grainy pictures of the young and old being herded into trains, huge heaps of suitcases in a concentration camp, thousands of pairs of spectacles reduced to bales of crushed wire.

Charles Couward A Hero And Righteous Gentile

Somehow an artillery officer is sent to Auschwitz. He gave Nazis chocolates, and they gave him dead gentile's death certificates. The Jews/Gentiles then would play dead, and would be taken by cart to a nearby cemetery. As the cart plodded along, they jumped off, and ran into the forest. The captain saved more than 400 lives.

His daring humanity is commemorated in Jerusalem, on the Avenue of Righteous Gentiles at Yad Vashem.
 

Jews Stuff Other Jews

A former Jewish undertaker would preserved bodies, and prisoners would stand their dead colleagues up for roll call so they could collect their rations.

Brown Passes Compulsory Holocaust Teaching

Only by systematic efforts - such as the Holocaust Educational Trust's Lessons from Auschwitz programme and compulsory teaching about the Holocaust in secondary schools - can we maintain a common knowledge of what happened, celebrate the courage of the few who fought it and learn the lessons for the future.

Students Take Field Trips

British taxpayers provided funds for pupils from every school in the country to visit Auschwitz and learn of the tragedies that follow when people do not stand up. Last year 3,000 pupils traveled to Auschwitz, this year 4,000 - every secondary school offering at least two pupils the chance to see its dark truths.