Players from the club’s under-14 side held a minute’s silence with their Swansea City counterparts ahead of their recent fixture, while both sets of players also gathered together before the game to honour the life of Hungarian footballer Jozsef Braun, who was killed in 1943 in a Nazi forced labour camp in Ukraine.
Ahead of kick-off, a representative player from the two sides read out a special card focusing on the life and career of Braun.
As part of a wider Premier League initiative, all academies have been learning about the horrors and history of the Holocaust, and players from all sides marked Holocaust Memorial Day at their fixtures.
Rhondell Stabana, YDP academy player care officer at Wolves, said: “We work with the Premier League and the Holocaust Education Trust and each year they provide us with a player’s story and someone who we can tell the boys about and this year’s focus was on Jozsef Braun.
“During the week leading up to the Swansea match, the boys had some brilliant conversations about the Holocaust and questioned whether it could happen again and what would they have done if they’d been there.
“One of our under-14s, Miles, his grandad was one of the first to exit the concentration camps, so it’s particularly special for him and we wanted to make sure that he got the chance to talk about his story as well.
“We asked Miles if he could read the information about Braun to the rest of the boys and they got to commemorate his life by lighting a candle and taken a minute’s silence.”
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Two players from the under-14 team will also hope to visit the Auschwitz concentration camp later this year, accompanied by players from other Premier League academies and teachers from Wolves Academy, while a Holocaust survivor will come into the Academy and speak to the players about their experiences.
Miles said: “We read about Jozsef Braun. He was a footballer who was killed in a concentration camp. Then on the Sunday, we played a match against Swansea, and we walked out onto the pitch together before carrying out a minute’s silence, shaking hands and playing the game.
“My grandad was kept in the Belsen concentration camp and I think we should remember it because it can help to get rid of all discrimination in the future.”
