This week our B team took part in an educational session learning about the events and experiences during the Holocaust.

The team heard from Eva Schloss MBE, an Austrian-English Holocaust survivor. She is stepdaughter of Otto Frank and stepsister to Anne Frank.  

Schloss spoke openly about her childhood in Germany and her experiences of having to flee the country while Jews were under persecution by the Nazis. The talk from Schloss was an opportunity for our Brentford B players to learn more about the Holocaust and hear first-hand about the atrocities the Jewish community faced during the Second World War.  

Eva told her insightful story to Neil MacFarlane's B team earlier this week

Brentford B team player Ben Winterbottom attended the talk with Eva and he spoke about the importance of hearing from survivors: The 21-year-old said: “For Eva to come in and tell us about her experiences, we can’t even imagine what it was like for her to have been through that. Her message is very important.  

“As a young person, it’s crucial to learn about these experiences. There aren’t many Holocaust survivors left and we were able to hear about it from Eva first-hand. In school you read books about this, but to have someone come in and talk to you, it really hits home that we can’t let things like this happen again.  

“We’re so lucky that we get to play football everyday. The fact that we have sessions, such as the talk we’ve had from Eva, it’s important for us to learn about discrimination and to get us out of our football bubble and understand that there’s a lot going on elsewhere.”   

The B team listened to the talk at the Robert Rowan Performance Centre

Monique Choudhuri, non-executive director at Brentford said: “Eva Schloss is inspiration to us all. Nobody should ever have to endure what she and her family did during the war and through the Holocaust. Sadly, as time goes on, there are fewer and fewer survivors of this time. However it is through Eva’s legacy that we can all keep these stories going, so nobody should have to experience these atrocities, antisemitism and wider discrimination again. 

“Today, many are still facing discrimination and persecution, and it is our collective responsibility as a society to educate the next generations about the impact of this, so we bring about a better world.”