Holocaust Educational Trust Blog

A space for featured guest bloggers and members of the Holocaust Educational Trust team to comment and reflect on timely issues.

Norbert Hinterleitner

Norbert Hinterleitner is Head of the Education Department at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. In this episode of the podcast, he discusses his organisation's work and some of the contemporary lessons that visitors to the Anne Frank House might learn from their experience there.

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The Legacy of the Pink Triangle

As Rudolf Brazda, one of the last wearers of the Pink Triangle, passes away, Ben Summerskill, Chief Executive of Stonewall, reminds us of why this passage of history is still relevant today.




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Representing the Holocaust, part 2: Fiction & Fact

In the second part of his ongoing series exploring the debates around artistic representations of the Holocaust, Alan Polak considers what role fiction can play in our understanding of history.



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Nick Robinson

Nick Robinson is the BBC Political Editor. In this episode of the podcast, recorded at a Holocaust Educational Trust Student Ambassador event, he discusses his own family's connection with Nazi persecution and answers questions from the audience about politics, prejudice, and the meaning of 'Never Again'.

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Only education can keep designer prejudice at bay

This article by Karen Pollock appears in the Jewish News and follows the trial of John Galliano in Paris this week

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Martin Winstone

Martin Winstone is the author of The Holocaust Sites of Europe: An Historical Guide. In this episode of the podcast, he discusses some of the sites that he researched in writing his book and the educational value of visiting authentic Holocaust sites.

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Eve Rosenhaft

Eve Rosenhaft, Professor of German Historical Studies at University of Liverpool discusses the persecution of the Roma and Sinti, Nazi racial policy relating to this victim group and the challenges associated with researching this area of history.

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Preserving Auschwitz

The UK government's announcement of funding to help maintain Auschwitz-Birkenau was an important step, one which raises compelling questions about preserving Holocaust sites. Alex Maws welcomes the educational challenge.

Preserving Auschwitz

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Representing the Holocaust

 

In the first of a series of posts on the representation of the Holocaust in art and literature, Alan Polak discusses the purpose of such attempts at engaging with the Holocaust in fiction, film and poetry.

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Yiftach Meiri

Yiftach Meiri from the Yad Vashem International School for Holocaust Studies discusses how Israel's Holocaust consciousness differs from that of the UK and other countries.

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