Some 100 Belgian students to visit Auschwitz on Thursday

Some 100 Belgian students to visit Auschwitz on Thursday
Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi concentration and extermination camp. Credit: Bartosz Siedlink /AFP / Belga

Around 100 secondary school pupils will visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp near Kraków (Poland) on Thursday, the War Heritage Institute and the Ministry of Defence announced on Wednesday.

The young people, aged between 16 and 18, will be accompanied by a Holocaust survivor, Simon Gronowski, as well as the Defence Minister's representative, Lieutenant-Colonel Christophe Comhair.

The students, who come from all over Belgium, will spend Thursday in Auschwitz. After spending the morning at the Auschwitz I camp, the group will go on to the Birkenau extermination centre "where hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were gassed on the very day they arrived."

"The aim of passing on the memory to young people is twofold: on the one hand, to show respect for the victims and on the other, to warn against the extremism that seems to be making a resurgence in our countries," the press release stated.

This remembrance trip, organised by the War Heritage Institute in collaboration with the Ministry of Defence, takes place every year to commemorate the liberation of Auschwitz on 27 January 1945.

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