Today, Year 6 were invited to visit the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in honour of Holocaust Memorial Day which was celebrated on Friday 27th January.
We were invited and shown around the Synagogue by Susannah, who came to teach us more about Judaism during Judaism Week last term and also Dov, another teacher from the Synagogue. We had many questions for them today, especially about the Torah which linked to our learning about the Bible during our last Religious Education topic.
As well as learning more about the synagogue, we were also shown the Holocaust memorial, which was very thought provoking and beautiful .
The highlight of our visit today, was having the opportunity to meet and learn from Ann and Bob Kirk, who came to England from Germany as children on the Kindertransport in 1939, to escape the Holocaust. We all felt very privileged to hear their moving story.
Many thanks to everyone at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue to for making us so welcome today and for giving us such an amazing opportunity. We really appreciate it.
I really enjoyed visiting the liberal Jewish synagogue as it was really interesting and fun. I enjoyed listening to the two people who talked about their experiences in the holocaust and how they managed to survive.I liked seeing the Torah and seeing the Jewish memorial art piece.Thank you to all the parents and teachers for taking us there.
I found a lot of information and I loved it when bob kirk and ann came to us to talk about how they survived the holocaust which was really sad. We learned about more things about Jewish life and Many thanks to everyone at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue to for making us so welcome today and for giving us such an amazing opportunity. We really appreciate it.
I learnt so much from Ann and Bob Kirk when they spoke to us and it was so moving to hear their story, it’s so amazing that they escaped and have lived happily in England since, despite what they’ve been through. Thank you to everybody at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, especially Dov and Susannah who showed us their sculpture to remember the Holocaust by Anish Kapoor and showed us the Torah and helped us learn lots more about it.
It was really interesting to learn about Judaism and go to the synagogue because it is really important to learn about other religions
I really enjoyed visiting the liberal Jewish synagogue as it was really interesting and fun. I enjoyed listening to the two people who talked about their experiences in the holocaust and how they managed to survive .I liked seeing the Torah and seeing the Jewish memorial art piece .Thank you to all the parents and teachers for taking us there
I loved learning about Ann and Bob Kirk’s childhood it was very interesting and the memorial sculpture brought so many thoughts and feelings. The Holocaust was terrible for those who went through it and it needs to be remembered so that nothing similar to this can happen again.
I also learnt about how synagogue is also a teaching area and that people survived the concentration camps
Going to the synagogue was a really interesting experience. All of the stories and facts I heard really impressed me and I would like to learn a lot more about Judaism.
I really enjoyed the Synagogue. My favourite part is when we saw Bob and Anne Kirk came and spoke about their experiences during the Holocaust.
Thank you so much Susannah for teaching us so many facts about Jewish Life.
I would also like to give a big THANK YOU to Bob and Ann Kirk for sharing your story. It’s so amazing how you managed to escape and now you live together in England.
All of us enjoyed the Synagogue last week. We learnt so much about the Holocaust from Ann and Bob Kirk. Thank you to the Liberal Jewish Synagogue for inviting us.
I was such an amazing experience going to the LJS and listening to Ann and Bob. It was so interesting and I think we all learned a lot from that visit. Thank you!
This was such an interesting trip and I learnt so much.
Hearing Bob and Ann Kirk’s story was really heart warming and moving to listen to.
I am really grateful that we went on this trip .
This trip to the Synagogue was really interesting. It was really amazing to speak to Bob and Anne Kirk as they had actually lived through Kristallnacht and were a part of the Kindertransport. I also learnt a lot about Judaism and the Torah in particular.
I really enjoyed our trip to the Synagogue. I learned lots about the Torah and the five books of the Pentateuch. I learned lots from Bob and Ann Kirk’s visit. It was amazing to hear their story.
I enjoyed the trip a lot because I got to learn a lot about Judaism and we got to meet some very interesting people who told us more about the Holocaust
It was interesting visiting the synagogue.
I enjoyed our time and being taught by Susannah who came to us not that long ago to teach us about the Jewish life. We’ve learnt so much. Thank you, Susannah.
I loved the memorial because it really got me thinking about what it could represent. I also loved the amazingly moving story told by Bob and Ann Kirk . I also learned that the pomegranate seeds represent the Jewish rules. I remember that the Torah ends when Moses led the people out of Egypt in to the promised land that God promised. Thank you for inviting us to the Liberal Jewish Synagogue.
I enjoyed hearing Bob and Ann Kirk. They told us about a lot themselves and what they experienced. Dov showed us the torah and read us a piece of the torah.