Euro 2012: England players visit Auschwitz with Avram Grant

squad members also visit the factory where Oskar Schindler saved Jews from the Krakow ghetto during the Second World War

A group of players from England, headed by the Director, Roy Hodgson, has made an emotional visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau and paid tribute to some 1.3 million people killed in the camp death by the Nazis during the Second World War.

The group was accompanied by former Chelsea manager Avram Grant, who spoke individually with each of the parties, as they were guided by the site, then went to the meeting on furnaces used by the Nazis to burn the dead. "It is very important that you are here," said Grant, whose own family lost 15 members of Auschwitz. "People will see that you came here, and others will follow. Important to talk and spread the message of what happened here."

• players - Wayne Rooney, Joe Hart, Phil Jagielka, Leighton Baines, Theo Walcott, Jack Butland and Andy Carroll - were visibly shaken when he shows a lot of shoes for children, medical prostheses, glass house confiscated detained on arrival at the camp, and many of the victims hair.
• They read the label luggage labels belonging to Klara Fochtmann, Benjamin Herman Pasternak Eisler Lazaro and two years, Petr, and stood in quiet contemplation as they took the stage. Grant, Hodgson and FA chairman David Bernstein, concluded the visit - organized in collaboration with the Holocaust Educational Trust -. Lighting candles on the trails leading to the area

Rooney said. "It is difficult to understand, so difficult when the number of children's clothing and shoes, it is a sad experience first hand to see to understand, of course. Soccer field in perspective. Never be forgotten. Know that children now days are interested in football players, and if a little more people to understand what happened because we are here today so it must be good. "

A second group of players from England, led by Captain Steven Gerrard has spent time in the enamel and the former munitions factory created by Oskar Schindler, who is credited have saved more than 1,100 Jews from Krakow ghetto by employing them in the ground. "You tend to look back on days like this as much as the same tournament in the years to come," said Joleon Lescott, one of 15 members of the team to visit the factory. "It may take some time to sink in. "

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