Walking through the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz, the
horrors of the Holocaust were brought home to England's footballers on
Friday. Linking Europe's darkest days and football was the Jewish
former Chelsea manager Avram Grant, who joined the England delegation
to recall how 15 members of his family were among the Auschwitz
victims. Stunned into silence, shaking their heads in astonishment,
the players heard about the magnitude of the atrocities committed at
the former Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau camps.
