Senior pupils lead services of remembrance for Holocaust victims in Fife

Pupils in Fife have been learning about the horrors of the Nazi extermination camps as part of Holocaust remembrance and Tuesday’s anniversary gave the lessons a special focus.

At Kirkcaldy High School assemblies, two sixth year pupils Cherelle Torrens and Kerry Steedman, who had visited Auschwitz-Birkenau at the end of last year, sponsored by the Holocaust Memorial Trust as part of the Scottish Government’s Lessons From Auschwitz Programme gave an illustrated talk and showed their poignant photographs.

They spoke movingly about their trip to Poland and told their peers the shocking story of Auschwitz and the other extermination camps, relaying the haunting memories they hold of the trip.

Meanwhile, Queen Anne High School, Dunfermline, also held a pupil-led service.

Head girl Laura Hood and senior prefect Siobhan O’Grady visited Auschwitz in September.

In November, they planted a tree in the school grounds as a memorial to victims of the Holocaust and last week led assemblies for all year groups.

Tuesday’s service was a solemn event as the school remembered the victims of the Holocaust and genocide in conflicts across the globe.