This weekend, our History Department have taken a group of pupils to Krakow, wherein they will learn about the past and culture of this incredible city.

Pupils arrived in Poland in the morning, and after checking in to their hotel, arrived at Oscar Schindler’s Museum – a wartime businessman made famous by the award-winning film ‘Schindler’s List.’ Pupils walked through the museum, taking in the experiences of Jews who lived in occupied Poland, and witnessing exhibitions that showed their deportation to urban ghettos – and finally, the deadly concentration and death camps. Pupils learnt about the acts of people like Schindler, who successfully secured the freedom of hundreds of enslaved Jews from the horrors of Auschwitz and Plaszow Concentration Camps – as well as those who took part in resistance movements like the Ghetto Uprising of 1944.

Pupils were then taken to the remains of the Krakow Ghetto wall – a harrowing reminder of the conditions people were forced into by the Nazis, before seeing the memorial in ‘Hero’s Square’ – the site in which many families were taken to Auschwitz via train, but also the site of heroic attempts from freedom fighters to disrupt the Nazi’s genocidal efforts.

Pupils were then given time to shop and eat in the historic Krakow Old Town, boosting their independence, confidence and cultural capital!

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