Today our Maths Department lead the upper and lower schools in our Holocaust Memorial Assemblies.

Reverend McKearney started the assembly with a prayer and addressed why we remember the Holocaust – as catholics and as people.

Mr Morris lead the assembly, explaining this years theme for Holocaust Memorial Day – Fragility of Freedom. He went through the loss of freedoms the Jewish people experienced in the years up to and during World War 2, how this happened and how it resulted in the loss of millions.

Three students read the story of a Holocaust survivor, who experienced the horrors of Auschwitz. Her story and the stories of people she knew are given to us so we can remember the horrors and violence of war in a hope that they are never repeated.

Mrs Ricketts sang Amazing Grace, as a moment of reflection and contemplation on what we had heard.

We ended with a Jewish prayer for the dead to honour those who were lost. We must never forget the 9 million people that were lost during the holocaust. Their memory is a constant reminder of the world we must avoid and a driver of the world we can create.

‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” – Revelation 21:4