FOUR AS-level history Yale College students visited a concentration camp as part of the Europe for Citizens programme.

Frankie Grindley, Abbey Roberts, Joshua Halliday and Andy Moss visited St Marienthal Monastery in Ostritz, Poland, to join in a themed event called Remembering for the Future.

The aim was to encourage European integration and develop a sense of European identity.

Accompanied by Bev Binnersley from the international team at Yale College, the students attended a seminar on war and the holocaust and visited a concentration camp and saw vivid reminders of the legacy of Nazism and Stalinism.

The Europe for Citizens programme aims to ensure the reminders of atrocities and crimes of the past will bind European values for a more prosperous present and future.

Bev said: “The students gain a great deal from this visit, which has run for four years now. Witnessing the devastation of this period helps them to understand the importance of embracing peace.”

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