Artistic pupils from the Dukeries College, Ollerton, have unveiled poignant pieces of work reflecting on the Holocaust.
Pupils with their artwork are, left to right, Billy Parkin, 14, Stephanie Cargill, 13, Daniel Wetton, 14, and Louise Anker, 14. (150710MW6-4)
The work was inspired by a visit to the Holocaust Centre at Laxton.
Eight children created three giant canvasses.
They feature possessions that would have been stripped from Jews as they entered concentration camps such as clothes, shoes, handbags, jewellery, spectacles, toys, and books.
A film is shown over the canvasses and there is audio from real Holocaust survivors accompanied by striking music.
Their most poignant of words and phrases are replicated on the canvasses coupled with photographs of innocents and their suffering.
In a second installation, pupils used their own hands as models for papier-mache hands suspended from the ceiling to symbolise desperate passengers on the freight trains to the camps.
The work was done as part of religious education studies.
Teacher Mr Matt Bancroft said: “The students involved showed levels of sensitivity and maturity in their understanding of the Holocaust and in their ability to collaborate on what has become a very poignant piece of work.”
