On 4 February 2008, Schools Minister Jim Knight announced £4.65 million of funding to the Holocaust Educational Trust which will enable two pupils from every sixth form and college in the UK to visit Auschwitz and learn about the Holocaust.

The funding means the Holocaust Educational Trust's 'Lessons from Auschwitz' programme will continue for another three years from 2008 to 2011. Each visit takes up to 200 students from across the country to Auschwitz in Poland, where expert guides and educators from the UK show pupils around the site and let them see first hand where the horrendous atrocities occurred.

In addition, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Ed Balls, released a statement to "put an end once and for all to the myth that the Holocaust is not being taught in schools or is being removed from the curriculum … Teaching of the Holocaust is compulsory in all secondary schools between the ages of 11 and 14."

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• Op-ed by FS Miliband: How I found life in a graveyard (3 July 2009)
• Op-ed by PM Brown: The lesson I learnt at Auschwitz (21 May 2009)
• Foreign Secretary's statement on Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January 2009)
• Op-ed: Prime Minister Brown's pledge on Holocaust education (29 February 2008)
• Press release: Britain earmarks £4.65 million for school visits to Auschwitz (4 February 2008)
• Press release: Teaching of the Holocaust is compulsory, says Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (4 February 2008)