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Students from the Cynon Valley were among other UK schools to take part in an emotional visit to the Auschwitz concentration camp, above
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StudentS from the Cy-non Valley have spoken about how they were pro-foundly affected when they paid an emotional visit to Auschwitz concen-tration camp.
Sixth formers Car-wyn davies and Rebecca Jones, from Aberdare Community School, and Morgan dove and Abigail Williams, from Moun-tain Ash Comprehensive School, made the journey to the camp as part of a scheme run by the Holo-caust educational trust and funded by Parliament at Westminster.
With the aid of a tour guide and the use of au-dio-visual media, the Am-bassadors to Auschwitz joined other youngsters from numerous uK schools also included in the project.
The pupils recall ob-serving the lasting effect of the Holocaust on the
Jewish graveyard of Os-wiecim town, Poland, as well as the infamous room of Jewish memorabilia at Auschwitz I, which Carw-yn, 17, said was ‘one of the most hard-hitting features of Auschwitz.’
The trip enabled the pupils to experience first-hand the sheer scale of what happened at the nazi concentration camps in German-occupied Poland almost 75 years ago.
Carwyn said “The pris-oner crematoriums and gallows emphasised to us that this whole place was just one humongous slaughter house. There were instruments of death everywhere.”
Shocked by the size of Auschwitz, he added: “The visit was a phenom-enal experience and re-
ally did re-humanise the Holocaust. I personally gained something.”
Rebecca Jones, 17, was also deeply touched by the trip.
She said: “Imagine if you had been there at the time, it could have been your mother, father, brother, sister, husband, wife, son, daughter or any other family member who were ripped out of your life in an unspeakable way.”
The Lessons from Aus-chwitz Project, part of the Holocaust educational trust founded in 1988, in-tends to raise awareness and understanding of the tragedy, and aims to moti-vate future generations to speak out against intoler-ance.
Carwyn added: “It is im-portant that other people get the opportunity to do the same and the ghosts of the past are not forgotten.”
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‘It’s important the ghosts of the past aren’t forgotten’
Sixth-formers Carwyn Davies and Rebecca Jones, from Aberdare Community School, and Morgan Dove and Abigail Williams, from Mountain Ash Comprehensive School made the trip to the Auschwitz concentration camp
Pasty shape is changingtHe people of the Cynon Valley have decided it’s cool to be “square” as savoury pastry maker, Peter’s Pies, improves the shape of its famous range of pasties.
Asda Aberdare customers were invited to take part in research which included 500 customer interviews and sampling events.
As a result, Bedwas-based Peter’s is changing the shape of its “d” shaped pasty – squaring off the edges of the corned beef, cheese and onion and chicken for a better bake and pastry fill, whilst promising Welsh pasty lovers the same great taste.
From Aberdare to Aberkenfig, Merthyr to Mountain Ash, more than 80% of customers interviewed said they preferred the new squared shape, with 98% saying they will be buy the new product in future.
The new shaped pasty will hit supermarket shelves from this Friday.