The Kings’ Messenger

The Poignant Pilgrimage to PolandFor the fourth consecutive year the R.E. Department visited Krakow in Poland in March.As to be expected, this was an emotional and eventful trip recounting the steps of the Polish people, Jews,Slavs, Political activists, Gypsies or Homosexuals who had been shown prejudice and discrimination bythe Nazi regime.73 Year 10 students travelled to Poland and visited areas of Krakow,which had been used in the filming of “Schindler’s List”. They walkedin the footsteps of the persecuted, who had been forced to move fromthe beauty of Krakow to the ghetto slum of Podgorze before laterdeported to various concentration and death camps, the biggest beingAuschwitz and Birkenau.