SCHOOLKIDS will get free trips to Nazi death camps to learn about the horrors of the Holocaust.

Two students from every sixth-form and college in England will visit Auschwitz and Birkenau under a £5million scheme being unveiled by the Government today.

Up to 4,000 students aged 16-18 will fly to Poland on chartered jets each year between now and 2011.

They will tour the camps and see photos and belongings of some of the six million Jews murdered by Hitler’s henchmen.

The move will end rumours that lessons on the Holocaust are to be struck off the school curriculum.

Youngsters from a wide range of religious and ethnic backgrounds will be encouraged to go and it is hoped they will be “ambassadors” for fellow pupils on their return.

Schools Minister Jim Knight helped secure the funding after joining pupils on a trip to the camps last year.

Mr Knight said: “It had a very powerful effect on me.”

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