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Academy youngsters learn about the Holocaust

Holocaust Memorial Day, held on 27 January 2021, was the day for everyone to remember the millions of people murdered in the Holocaust, under Nazi Persecution, and in the genocides which followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.

Steven Frank BEM was born in 1935 into a secular Jewish family in Amsterdam. In 1943 the Frank family were sent to Westerbork transit camp before arriving at Terezin in Czechoslovakia where the family survived and were liberated on 9th May 1945.

Steven, his mother and two brothers, rebuilt their lives in Britain. He now lives in Hertfordshire and regularly speaks in schools about his experiences during the Holocaust.