On Friday January the 25th at lunchtime, we commemorated the Holocaust Memorial Day in the Library Resource Centre. Amidst a candlelit setting, we explored this year's theme "Imagine...remember, reflect and react". A group of S6 pupils, Johanna Tudhope, Liam Baillie, Fiona Adrain, Caroline Hyslop and David McIlwraith, prepared readings imagining we were in Germany and Poland before World War II, in Cambodia during the time of the Khymer Rouge, in Rwanda during the genocide and in present day United Kingdom as an asylum seeker. Each pupil told a story of an individual during these times. Finally, Lesley Roy read the evocative poem "Night" by Elie Weisel telling of his arrival as a boy at Auchswitz.
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