AS part of their studies, year nine history, music, dance, art and drama students, from Weydon School in Farnham, worked collaboratively to create an impressive, thought-provoking memorial reflecting on the persecution, prejudice, isolation and murder of the Jews and other minorities that took place under the Nazi Germany regime from 1933 to 1945.

They dealt with the topic with maturity and sensitivity as they looked into the development of the persecution from prejudice in 1933, to isolation and murder by 1940, gaining an insight into the lives of some of the victims as well as some of the Nazi perpetrators like Battalion 101.

The purpose of the Holocaust memorial projects was to allow the students to personally respond to what they had learnt and to express in their own way how, and why, it should be remembered.

Weydon’s Medici Theatre was transformed into a living installation of dance, drama, original music compositions, art works and history projects that represented the student’s personal reflections and understanding of the Holocaust.

According to staff, it was a “very powerful and poignant experience” wandering through the work of these young students, who created works with maturity and sensitivity.

Parents, students and teachers who visited the memorial exhibition were very moved by the work. Some of the comments received after the exhibition were: “This is a fantastic exhibition- very moving. Students have carefully considered their learning and reflected on it in a variety of ways.”

Others commented that the experience was “thought-provoking”, “meaningful education”, a “great cross-curricular collaboration”, and an “extremely moving tribute to such an atrocity”.