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.

70 Voices - Week 6 - Life and death in camps

In the sixth of our weekly 70 Voices podcasts, the Trust's Head of Education Alex Maws talks to archaeologist Dr Caroline Sturdy Colls about her pioneering research on Nazi camps and its implications for our understanding of the Holocaust.

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70 Voices - Week 5 - Destruction of communities

In our fifth weekly 70 Voices podcast, the Trust's Head of Education Alex Maws and Education Officer Martin Winstone discuss the round-ups and deportations which characterised the destruction of Jewish communities during the Holocaust.

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70 Voices - Week 4 - Ghettos

In the fourth of our weekly 70 Voices podcasts, the Trust's Head of Education Alex Maws and Education Officer Martin Winstone are joined by historian and educator Jeremy Leigh of Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem, to discuss the evolution and nature of ghettos during the Holocaust and the responses of Jewish communities to them.

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70 Voices - Week 3 - The development of the Holocaust

In our third weekly 70 Voices podcast, the Trust's Head of Education Alex Maws and Education Officers Martin Winstone and Tom Jackson discuss how the Holocaust evolved during the Second World War and the implications this has for teaching about the Holocaust.

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70 Voices - Week 2 - Pre-war persecution

In the second of our weekly 70 Voices podcasts, the Trust’s Head of Education Alex Maws discusses the impact of Nazi persecution of Jews in the 1930s with Harry Bibring, who experienced it first-hand before he escaped from Vienna to the UK on the Kindertransport in 1939.

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Holocaust Memorial Day 2015: Nadhim Zahawi MP

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Nadhim Zahawi MP: Remembering the Holocaust is as important as ever.

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Holocaust Memorial Day 2015: Luciana Berger MP

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Luciana Berger MP: Only by understanding the Holocaust can we adequately tackle modern-day intolerance.

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Holocaust Memorial Day 2015: Laurence Rees

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Ahead of his documentary, Touched by Auschwitz, on BBC2 tonight at 9pm, Laurence Rees blogs on why it's important we continue to talk about the Holocaust.

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Holocaust Memorial Day 2015: Hugo Rifkind

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In this powerful blog ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day 2015, journalist Hugo Rifkind reflects on why we must all take a moment to remember.

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Holocaust Memorial Day 2015: Journalist Benjamin Butterworth

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In the second of today's blogs for Holocaust Memorial Day 2015, Gay Times journalist Benjamin Butterworth reflects on visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau with the Trust and why it's important we also remember the other victims of Nazi persecution.

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