St George's International School hosted a powerful talk by Steven Frank, a concentration camp survivor, on Wednesday this week. The School had invited Steven to address Year 9 and Year 10 Secondary students who are studying World War II in their History lessons. He then joined Passage, a Parent Support Group, to talk to adults and children from the wider international community as part of their ‘Keeping History Alive’ presentation.

Steven, who has toured UK schools for more than 20 years doing these presentations, told his fascinating story complete with pictures and artifacts. This included his journey from a happy home and early childhood in Holland to his grim and harrowing experiences in the Czech concentration camp Theresienstadt where he was one of just 93 survivors from 15,000 children. In the evening for Passage, he went on to speak about his involvement in a project to keep history alive for future generations by creating holograms of survivors who can carry on telling their story in the first person for generations to come.

For everyone involved it was an insightful and thought-provoking experience, which we hope to have the chance to repeat in the future.

In the meantime, if you want to learn more about Steven Frank and the project to preserve Holocaust memories, please visit the Passage website at www.Passage.lu  

Passage would like to thank St George's International School for providing a venue for the evening presentation.