Each year tens of thousands of individuals take part in the Trust’s Outreach Programme. Please see below for our upcoming special Outreach Events.
Our Online Testimony Events for Schools 2026/27
Hearing from a witness allows us to put a human face to one of the darkest periods of history. In our Multi-School Outreach sessions, we bring together schools to hear witness testimony, mark key anniversaries and to explore important themes in Holocaust education. Whether commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day or learning about the impact of the Holocaust on the next generation, these sessions offer a shared space for reflection, learning, and remembrance.
Sign up to our Multi-School sessions for the academic year 2025/26 below.
Remembering Kristallnacht with Peter Summerfield BEM
Tuesday 10th November, 10:00-11:30
We’re opening this academic year’s Multi-School Outreach series with a session exploring the events of Kristallnacht, 9-10 November 1938. Kristallnacht, also known as the Night of Broken Glass or the November Pogrom, was a state-sponsored attack on Jewish communities in Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland. Synagogues were burned, Jewish homes and businesses vandalised, and Jews were subjected to a night of terror and violence. Through survivor testimony, students will learn about the events of Kristallnacht through lived experience and consider the impact this event had in the development of the Holocaust.
This session is suitable for students in Year 6 and above and is one of our most popular sessions for primary schools.
To register, please complete the form here. A Zoom link will be sent to you prior to the event.
Marking Kitty Hart Moxon OBE’s 100th Birthday with Peter and Moira Hart
Thursday 26th November, 10:00-11:30
A special Multi-School session marking Holocaust survivor Kitty Hart-Moxon OBE’s 100th birthday. Kitty arrived in Auschwitz on 2nd April 1943 at 16 years old. From April 1944 to November 1944 Kitty endured forced labour including working in the ‘Kanada Kommando’, a special work group tasked with organising the belongings of the camp’s victims. The ‘Kanada Kommando’ was situated close to the four gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz which meant Kitty witnessed the relentless killing that took place there.
As well as Auschwitz, Kitty experienced other camps such as Gross-Rosen and Bergen-Belsen where she and her mother were liberated in April 1945. Kitty has written many books about her experiences and her 1979 documentary Return to Auschwitz was incredibly influential.
Kitty turns 100 on 1st December and in this session, her son Peter and his wife Moira will reflect on her experiences. Students are also invited to take part in a special commemorative activity to mark her milestone birthday.
This session is suitable for students in Year 9 and above.
To register, please complete the form here. A Zoom link will be sent to you prior to the event.
HMD 2027 Primary Multi-School – In Conversation with Harry Kessler BEM
Thursday 14th January 2027, 10:00-11:30
Join us to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2027. The session will begin with a short lesson exploring Jewish life before the war and why we mark Holocaust Memorial Day, followed by hearing Harry Kessler BEM’s testimony and a facilitated Q&A. Harry was born in Vienna in 1930. Following the Anschluss in March 1938, the family moved to Czechoslovakia. However, the next year they were again under Nazi occupation. They decided to leave the country and began to compile the extensive paperwork required to do so. An English couple who had befriended them whilst on holiday a few years prior, proved vital in signing essential documentation that allowed them to come to Britain which the family did in May 1939.
The session is suitable for students in Year 6-8/ P7-S2.
To register, please complete the form here. A Zoom link will be sent to you prior to the event.
Marking International Women’s Day – Female Experiences of the Holocaust with Paula Zeff
Thursday 4th March 2027, 10:00 – 11:30
For International Women’s Day, we will be exploring female experiences of the Holocaust through Holocaust survivor testimony. In this session, students will learn about women’s experiences through a short introductory lesson followed by the testimony of Holocaust survivor Paula Zeff. Paula was born in Rotterdam in 1939. When the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, life began progressively more difficult for Dutch Jews and Paula’s family attempted to flee to Switzerland. Her parents went ahead planning to send for Paula and her grandmother, but they were never heard from again. After a period with her grandmother and then great-aunt, Paula was placed in the care of a non-Jewish family who hid her for the rest of the war. Paula’s parents and grandparents were murdered in Auschwitz.
This session is suitable for Year 9 students and above
To register, please complete the form here. A Zoom link will be sent to you prior to the event.
Remembering ‘The Auschwitz Report’ (18 June 1944) – with Rob Angell
Friday 18th June, 10:00 – 11:30
Between 18th and 22nd June 1944, the Auschwitz Report written by two Slovak Jewish prisoners, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, who had escaped Auschwitz on 7th April 1944, was published worldwide. Released through media channels in Switzerland, it was the first eyewitness account of the camp to be published, sparking a worldwide press campaign condemning Nazi crimes.
In this session, students will learn about the significance of the report and its global response in an introductory lesson. They will then have the opportunity to hear the reflections of Next Generation speaker Rob Angell whose mother, Judith, was in Auschwitz from April 1944 until May 1945 when she was liberated from a sub-camp of Auschwitz by the Soviet Army.
This session is suitable for Year 9 students and above
To register, please complete the form here. A Zoom link will be sent to you prior to the event.
Faith & Identity During the Holocaust
Thursday 8th July 2027, 10:00 – 11:30
One of the biggest theological challenges of the Holocaust is the question of how God could have allowed such an event to happen. The issue of faith in confronting the Holocaust is something that continues to be grappled with by academics, faith leaders, communities and individuals. It’s a complex and thought-provoking question and one that allows students to deepen their awareness of the continuing impact of the Holocaust and the challenges it puts to humanity.
In this unique Multi-School session, a Next Generation speaker will share his reflections on these bigger questions.
This session is suitable for Year 9 students and above
To register, please complete the form here. A Zoom link will be sent to you prior to the event.