I am just about to leave for the airport for a trip I am taking to Auschwitz with the Holocaust Educational Trust.

I am leaving now after 1.5hrs sleep and I will get back home at midnight. If anyone calls this a ‘jolly’ I will flatten them.

I will be blogging live with photographs once I arrive.

As living witnesses diminish in numbers, it is important that others learn and tell the story of that terrible place.

We have been told to be prepared, that everyone who has visited so far has been incredibly moved.

More once I get there…..