Trip Brings Home Horrible Realities of Camp Atrocities ; of Prisoners at Auschwitz Birkenau. Some Schoolchildren Believe the Nazi Death Camp Auschwitz Was a Brand of Beer or a Kind of Bread, Latest Research Shows. Rupert Hall has Joined Students From Swansea On a Journey to Poland and the Now Legendary Epicentre of Jewish Persecution.

South Wales Evening Post › February 23, 2011

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HE was a big, burly teenager of 18 or so. A lad who obviously rarely, if ever, allowed his emotions to get the better of him, publicly at least.

But standing outside a gas chamber at Auschwitz concentration camp, he was clearly struggling to keep his composure. He wasn't alone.

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Trip Brings Home Horrible Realities of Camp Atrocities ; of Prisoners at Auschwitz Birkenau. Some Schoolchildren Believe the Nazi Death Camp Auschwitz Was a Brand of Beer or a Kind of Bread, Latest Research Shows. Rupert Hall has Joined Students From Swansea On a Journey to Poland and the Now Legendary Epicentre of Jewish Persecution.

Shivering in the darkness, the biting cold seemed almost not to matter.

I had been awake since 3am and, even as the day was drawing to a close, I still had a long journey ahead of me.

But, as I tightened my ski jacket and gloves on the fields of Birkenau, all I c...

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