A holocaust survivor shared her harrowing experience with students from Waldegrave School, Orleans Park and Teddington School this month.

Renee Salt told a packed hall about how she lost all her family in Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War.

She also spoke about how she endured being sent to a Polish ghetto and then two concentration camps. She survived these with the support of her mother, who tragically died of an infection less than a fortnight after the pair were liberated from Bergen Belsen.

Mrs Salt spoke on behalf by The Holocaust Educational Trust whose aim is to educate and engage young people on the Holocaust.

Year 10 student Lottie Westgarth said: “Listening to Mrs Salt really made me understand how horrific the Holocaust was.”

Mrs Havord a history teacher at Waldegrave School said: “It is a privilege for us to welcome Mrs Salt to the borough of Richmond. Her testimony is a powerful reminder of the horrors so many people experienced.”