Holocaust memorial project on concentration camp where Anne Frank died completed by Horsham students despite lockdown

Aaminah Azoor, Ben Phillips and Alex MacPherson from Collyer’s have created videos discussing the Bergen-Belsen camp where Anne Frank died, and they took part in a huge memorial project called Belsen 75.

The Holocaust Education Trust have recently delivered the Belsen 75 Programme in partnership with UCL Centre for Holocaust Education, and with support from the National Holocaust Centre and Museum.

Collyer’s head of history, Lucy MacDonald, said: “This programme was funded by the Department for Education and was designed to educate students across England about the history of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and its liberation by British forces.

“I am really proud of [the students] for doing this without the support they would normally have had through seminars with me and the Trust.”

Teachers were sent bespoke educational resources, and through the Belsen 75 microsite they can access brand new innovative digital and interactive recorded survivor testimony.

Aaminah, Ben and Alex were also among the 1,000 students and teachers who travelled to the Bergen-Belsen Memorial in March as part of the programme.

Steve Martell, Collyer’s deputy principal, said: “Aaminah, Ben and Alex are an absolute credit to the Collyer’s community.

“We are massively proud of their contribution to the important work of the Holocaust Educational Trust and the UCL Centre of Holocaust Education.”

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of concentration camps and the end of Nazi tyranny in Europe. British troops liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945.

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