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BBC’s Nick Robinson joins Lessons from Auschwitz Student Ambassadors in Westminster

On Tuesday 12th July, BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson and Ollie Barbieri, star of the Channel 4 series ‘Skins,’ were guest speakers at the Lessons from Auschwitz Student Ambassador event. Over 200 students from across the country gathered in Westminster for the event, which honoured the outstanding work they have completed following their visits to Auschwitz-Birkenau, passing on what they have learnt to others in their schools and communities.

Reflecting on his family connections to the Holocaust, Nick Robinson said: “I believe in what the Holocaust Educational Trust does, because I learnt late as a teenager that my grandparents had fled Nazi Germany to escape the Holocaust. It is through human stories and not numbers that the Holocaust comes to life, but there will come a time when survivors are gone and passing on the Holocaust will rest on future generations, particularly those young people who have participated in Lessons from Auschwitz. It will be up to them to tell the stories and teach their friends, families and communities about what happened.”

To read an account of the event from one of our Student Ambassadors, Jack Whitfield, please click here.