Karen Pollock CBE

Karen Pollock CBE is the Chief Executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust. She started her professional life working for the Parliamentary Committee Against Antisemitism (PCAA), where she became Director. She joined the Holocaust Educational Trust as Communications Director in 1998 and became the Trust’s Chief Executive in 2000.

She was a founding Trustee of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and is a member of the Council of the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust Council at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. She is a Vice President of the Jewish Leadership Council, and an Advisor to the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation.

In 2012 Karen was awarded an MBE for her services to education in the UK. In 2020, she was awarded a CBE for services to Holocaust education.

Professor Tim Cole

Tim Cole is Professor of Social History at the University of Bristol and Director of the Brigstow Institute. He is also Chair of the 'We are Bristol History Commission' set up in the wake of the toppling of the Colston Statue. His research is on environmental histories and historical geographies with a particular focus on the Holocaust. Among Tim's recent publications are Holocaust Landscapes (2016) and About Britain (2021).

Jonathan Freedland

Jonathan Freedland is an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster. He writes a weekly column for The Guardian and is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s contemporary history series The Long View as well as the co-host (with the Israeli journalist Yonit Levi) of Unholy, a weekly podcast. He has written twelve books, the latest of which is the acclaimed bestseller The Escape Artist: the Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World.

Martin Winstone

Martin Winstone is Project Historian for the UK Holocaust Memorial and Senior Historical Advisor to the Holocaust Educational Trust. He is the author of The Holocaust Sites of Europe, a guide to Holocaust sites across the continent, and The Dark Heart of Hitler’s Europe, a history of the General Government, the Nazi colony in occupied Poland which became the central killing ground of the Holocaust. He is also a member of the UK delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).

Dr Imogen Dalziel

Dr Imogen Dalziel is Research Associate at the UK Holocaust Memorial. She previously worked for the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership and the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London, from where she also obtained her PhD in 2020. Dr Dalziel was a participant on the Lessons from Auschwitz Project in 2009; she was in the first cohort of Regional Ambassadors and is now a freelance Educator for the Trust. She also volunteers with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, and her efforts were recognised with an ‘If Not for Those Ten…’ award in 2016.

Kiera Fitzgerald

Kiera Fitzgerald is The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Education Officer and assists with the development and delivery of the Library’s educational programme for schools. Kiera is also an Ambassador Alumni of the Trust, having completed the Lessons from Auschwitz Project in 2012.

James Bulgin

James Bulgin is Head of Content for the new Holocaust Galleries at Imperial War Museums. He started work on the project in 2016. Before joining IWM James worked as a commercial theatre producer and director, with work in the West End and on national tour. His BA was in English and his MA -- for which he was awarded a distinction – is in Holocaust Studies. He is currently completing a PhD under the Crosslands scholarship at Royal Holloway College, University of London, on ideas of apocalypse in Holocaust and Cold War history. His academic research focuses on issues of representation in Holocaust literature and film.

Sarah Wetton

Sarah is the Senior Educator at the National Holocaust Centre and Museum based in Laxton, Nottinghamshire. She has been part of the Education Team at the museum for 6 years, working with schools, universities, and trainee teachers. Sarah also works closely with survivors and their artefacts and has been involved in developing the Forever Project as an educational tool.

Nurit Davidson

Nurit Davidson is an Education Officer for the Holocaust Educational Trust where she is responsible for creating and delivering educational content to teachers, students and Ambassadors. Nurit previously worked at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center as head of Teacher Training seminars for Australian and Israeli teachers. Today she is one of Yad Vashem’s representatives to The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, an organisation committed to trans-national Holocaust research, education and commemoration.