Along with Scott Palmer, she went to Auschwitz recently through the Holocaust Educational Trust.

It is a national event, subsidised by the charity, and was followed by the BBC.

It involved a day visit to Poland and two seminar sessions, before and after the trip.

This is Hannah's account of her experiences ...

When heading home from the first seminar in Leeds we were unsure of what to expect.

After hearing we were picked, we instantly imagined the dark skies hovering over the empty, silent huts.

But once our group leader had told us of the sweltering heat and the 123,000 people who visited the day before; we suddenly became unsure of what to expect.

We listened to how people expected to feel when inside the camp.

Some said sad, some said angry.

Some just expected to feel nothing.

After our two-hour flight, we eventually landed at Krakow Airport, where we joined our group leader to lead us to our coach for the day.

We firstly visited an old Jewish town called Oswiecim where we reflected on the life of a typical Jewish community before the invasion of Poland.

After about an hour of standing in the scorching sun we moved on to Auschwitz One.

This was formally used to imprison the so-called "enemies of state" including the disabled, gypsies and homosexuals.

It is now a museum holding the evidence of the holocaust.

When arriving by the coach, we firstly didn't expect it to be situated in the middle of a town.

How could anyone live around there?

We secondly did not expect it to be so busy.

Families and children queuing endlessly for the toilets, parents searching for their cameras, in hope of catching their child in a picture before anyone else scrambled to get the spot.

We eventually met our tour guide and put on our headsets as we walked through the famous gate reading "Arbeit Macht Frei" – meaning work sets you free.

It did not set them free but to the 1.5million innocent people, their freedom was death.

We walked through the gloomy huts to find 80,000 pairs of shoes, people's hair still in plaits and thousands of glasses.

It was just too much to take in.

We entered the gas chambers where over one million people died and for some reason, everyone just felt numb.

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