A STUDENT has created a film telling young people not to believe everything they read on the internet.

Jess Oman, a history studies student at Teesside University, was outraged by websites claiming the Holocaust never happened.

The 20-year-old, from Stockton, has interviewed Holocaust survivor Lydia Maksymowicz, who was just three years old when she was separated from her mother and taken to the concentration camp at Auschwitz.

She became a test subject for Dr Josef Mengele, an SS officer who performed experiments on prisoners.

Ms Oman, who is writing a dissertation on the Holocaust, has now made a film with Fixers – a charity which aims to give young people a voice – and a group of her fellow students to encourage people to do their own research instead of believing everything they see online.

She said: “People like Lydia have lived through that experience and been brave enough to share their stories and it’s just unbelievable that someone who didn’t even go through it would go online and write that it never happened.”

The film explains how detrimental it can be to believe everything you see on the internet, for example through social media outlets, while ignoring any sources, facts or statistics.

Fixers has helped more than 19,000 youngsters across the UK to have a voice in their community on issues such as cyber-bullying, self-harm and suicide.

To view the video go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVpXv7-qlHo