Over the February 2011 half-term 24 teachers from across the UK took part in the Holocaust Educational Trust’s first Teacher Study Visit to Berlin.
This unique course built on the Trust’s expertise in site-based education. It offered advanced Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for teachers, including the opportunity to meet experts at the House of the Wannsee Conference, where plans for the Final Solution were coordinated, and the Berlin Jewish Museum, which documents centuries of Jewish life in Germany. These teachers also visited several memorials dedicated to groups targeted by the Nazis during the Holocaust, and learned about issues of Holocaust remembrance in contemporary Germany from a representative of Limmud Germany.
The course was primarily led by Jeremy Leigh, author of the Trust’s publication Holocaust Sites in Germany, Poland and Austria, who has also been instrumental in developing the educational content for the Trust’s Lessons from Auschwitz Project.
