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Year 8 Visit an Anne Frank exhibition in Manchester Cathedral
Our Year 8 students have taken part in 'Polish Focus Fortnight' this month. As part of this, 90 students visited the 'Anne Frank and Me' exhibition at Manchester Cathedral this week. Anne Frank was born in Germany yet fled with her family to Amsterdam shortly before the Second World War, in order to avoid the strict new laws being imposed by the Nazi party which saw the Jews, like Anne Frank, heavily discriminated against.
Unfortunately, the invasion of Holland by the German Nazis resulted in Anne Frank and her family going into hiding in a secret annex behind her father's factory. Eventually the family were discovered and were subsequently sent to Auschwitz, the largest of the Nazi concentration camps, which was located less than 40 minutes away from our Polish partner school.
Students took part in a tour of the Cathedral and also a workshop regarding Anne Frank (her life in Auschwitz and her diary). Thet also participated in an artistic workshop on Auschwitz' victims (seeing an individual amongst a million).
Following her father's death (the only family member to survive the concentration camps) Anne Frank's diary has been re-released to include things originally cut out by her father.