The Bath Chronicle
Thursday, February 03, 2011, 11:00
Students at a secondary school in Keynsham had a living history lesson when the daughter of two Holocaust survivors visited.
Pupils at Broadlands School marked Holocaust Memorial Day with a series of activities designed to teach them about the horrors committed by the Nazis during the Second World War, and how the world has learnt from the tragedy.
One of the main events was a visit from guest speaker Eva Fielding-Jackson, whose profoundly deaf Jewish parents survived the experience.
Her father Samuel Feldman spent time in seven different concentration camps, ending up in Bergen Belsen, where he remained for two years after liberation because his deafness had prevented him from realising the war was over.
Eva Fielding-Jackson wrote a book, “Hava – Against All Odds”, published in April 2010.
He met his wife Adel when he returned to his home country Hungary and the couple later moved to Israel.
Ms Fielding-Jackson, who now lives in Bristol, is determined to raise awareness about the Holocaust and talked to the students about her own parents’ harrowing story.
Humanities teacher Kerry Huggins said the students had learnt a lot from the visit, not only about the tragedy of the Holocaust but also about prejudice generally.
She said: “She inspired the students to think about the Jewish people’s history of persecution, and to achieve empathy with them.
“Broadlands students learnt that these lessons from history must not be repeated. This was shown in the creative work produced by the end of the morning.”
Source: www.thisisbath.co.uk/education/Emotive-talk-Holocaust-horrors/article-3175082-detail/article.html
