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Extra funding for Holocaust trips (UK)

A project taking thousands of English teenagers to visit Auschwitz is to be funded for another three years, says the government.

Two sixth formers from every school in England are currently funded to visit Auschwitz in Poland, to encourage an understanding of the Holocaust.

The project will receive an extra £4.65m to extend it until 2011.
Read entire article at BBC