Several members of  England’s Euro 2012 squad travelled to the Auschwitz death camp yesterday. Wayne Rooney and Joe Hart were among those who toured the gas chambers, while the rest of the squad stayed closer to their Krakow base to visit the enamel factory where Oskar Schindler protected Jews from the SS and Gestapo. Hart, Rooney and the national team manager Roy Hodgson were joined by Leighton Baines, Theo Walcott, Andy Carroll, Jack Butland and Phil Jagielka, as well as former Chelsea manager Avram Grant, who lost 15 members of his family at the camp. Everton defender Jagielka, whose grandparents were Polish, said parts of the visit left him fighting back tears.
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Grant asked Hodgson to join the squad's Auschwitz visit to explain to them what happened
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His father buried his parents and siblings during the Holocaust
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Trip was filmed to educate secondary school pupils about the Holocaust
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Captain Steven Gerrard led an additional visit to Oskar Schindler's factory
Leading: England captain Steven Gerrard arrives at the @placeholder factory in Krakow, Poland