A COLLECTION of books has been donated to a school library.

Garnett Alderson, who lives in the St Oswald’s Almshouses next door to the school, has donated the holocaust Literature collection to RGS Worcester's Philip Sawyer Library.

The books are all on the subject of the holocaust and recount first-hand experiences of the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime under Hitler.

Mr Alderson invited Stuart Plant, head librarian at RGS Worcester, to view the books and discussed his interest in the subject.

As a Christian Jew, Mr Alderson has long been fascinated by the Holocaust and has amassed quite a large collection of fiction and non-fiction books around this subject.

He has strong views on the stories being kept alive and felt that by donating the books to the school he would be able to achieve this.

He is extremely keen that pupils at RGS are able to read these accounts in order to learn from the mistakes of the past.

The school said it felt the idea embodied its School motto: Respice et Prospice - 'Remember the Past and Look to the Future.'