These sessions are free to attend and open to anyone who has previously undertaken an introductory teacher training workshop, or other training, with the Holocaust Educational Trust.
- Unless otherwise stated, all sessions will take place on Zoom.
- You will need a computer with a camera and microphone to participate.
To sign up for any of the following seminars please click here (see below for further details):
- Sunday 10 March 2024 - Female Couriers during the Holocaust
- Sunday 19 May 2024 - The Holocaust in Hungary
Sunday 10 March 2024 (9:30-12:45 – on Zoom)
International Women's Day Lecture: Female Couriers during the Holocaust
In this session Orit Margoliot (independent researcher and educator) will present Yad Vashem’s Spots of Light: To Be a Woman in the Holocaust exhibition. The exhibition gives expression to the unique voice of Jewish women in the Holocaust: their choices and responses in the face of the evil, brutality and relentless hardship that they were forced to grapple with. Spots of Light forms one of 10 ready2print exhibitions available free to educational institutions via Yad Vashem, details will be provided during the workshop.
Shlomit Steiner (Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies) will explore the story of female couriers (kashariyot) during the Holocaust. The kashariyot were young Jewish women who undertook dangerous missions across German-occupied Eastern Europe. Adopting false identities, they transported documents, underground newspapers, forged documents, money, weapons and ammunition in and out of the ghettos of Poland, Lithuania, and parts of Russia.
Sunday 19 May 2024 (10:00-13:30)
The Holocaust in Hungary
May 2024 will mark the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the deportation of approximately 440,000 Jews from Hungary, most of them to their deaths in Auschwitz-Birkenau. However, although these deportations began only after Germany occupied the country in March 1944, the Hungarian authorities were deeply complicit in the dispossession, enslavement and, ultimately, murder of the Jews living under their control, both before and after the German invasion. This remains a highly divisive issue in modern Hungary, whose present government has promoted a very different narrative of the Holocaust era.
In this session we will explore the ghettoization and deportation of Hungarian Jews in 1944. Martin Winstone will explore the current dangers of Holocaust distortion in Hungary.
We particularly welcome attendance from those participating in the Teacher Study Visit to Budapest in May 2024.