The deadly path that led to the Holocaust started with 'minor' acts of discrimination, as two north Norfolk students have learned.
Daisy Lewin and Thomas Dawson, who are both doing their A-levels at Paston College in North Walsham, visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland as part of a programme run by the Holocaust Education Trust.
The pair took part in online seminars and heard from Holocaust survivors on the visit, which involved students from East Anglia.
Daisy said: “I think it’s very relevant for anti-semitism, which is definitely still a major issue today.
"It’s very easy to forget everything that happened during the Holocaust and how everything starts with prejudice.
"It didn’t start with the deaths of six million people. It started with prejudice and discrimination, singling people out and treating them differently.”
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Thomas said was moved by the visit.
He said: "Just being there, at the actual location where all of the horrors you hear about happened, was quite meaningful and harrowing at the same time.
"I think what blew me away was the scale of both camps, especially Auschwitz 2, and just how organised everything was.”
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