The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Chief Rabbi, Dr Jonathan Sacks, joined other faith leaders from Britain in a one-day visit to the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland last week. The visit was arranged to demonstrate their solidarity against the extremes of hostility represented by the camp.
It was organised in conjunction with the Lessons from Auschwitz Project and the Holocaust Educational Trust, which sent 200 students on the trip.
Dr Williams delivered his personal reflections during the visit, which culminated in the reading of Psalm 23. “Many times today, we’ve been reminded that what happened here at Auschwitz-Birkenau didn’t happen just because of a small number of monstrously evil people. It happened also because people cooked meals, drove trains, designed and built the buildings we’ve been in — people doing ordinary jobs, people who failed to see the big picture.
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