TWO students from Tudor Grange Academy have been ensuring that the tragic deaths of millions during the holocaust is never forgotten.

Year 12 pupils Anna Cardy and Heather Hughes recently visited Auschwitz concentration camp to better understand the traumatic ordeal people suffered.

The pair wanted to take an active role within the school’s teaching of the holocaust and are now ambassadors for the project and teaching younger students about the importance of remembering the genocide.

They were invited to join a group of around 200 other students from the region for a day trip to Poland arranged by the Holocaust Education Trust.

The trust is a British charity which aims to educate young people of all background about the Holocaust.

During the trip, the students visited the Oswiecim Jewish cemetery and concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau.

They said without visiting the site they would not have been able to understand the scale of tragedy adding the clear difference between them and the victims was that they would be able to go home to their families.

During a memorial service, Rabbi Barry Marcus told the students that if they held a one minute silence for every Auschwitz victim, they would be in silence for two years.

“Auschwitz has taught us so much about history and significantly about humanity,” Miss Cardy explained.