Holocaust Educational Trust Blog

In the first of our blogs commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day, Holocaust survivor Ben Helfgott MBE tells us about his journey to Britain following his liberation from Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Martin Winstone, the Trust's Education Officer, writes on the origins and impact of Kristallnacht

Emma Raynor, one of the Holocaust Educational Trust's Regional Ambassadors, on what the group achieved during their latest get-together in London

Shaun Palmer, one of the Holocaust Educational Trust's Regional Ambassadors for the North-West, reflects on his and Trust's experiences this summer

A lesser-known uprising took place at Treblinka on this date in 1943. Aaron Taylor, the Holocaust Educational Trust's summer intern, encourages us to learn and remember.

Holocaust survivor Zigi Shipper blogs on why you should attend our Ambassador Conference, which takes place on 8th July in central London.

Harley Ryley, one of the Trust's 25 Regional Ambassadors, blogs on why she's looking forward to our upcoming Ambassador Conference in July.

On the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising beginning, our education officer, Martin Winstone, describes the acts of Jewish resistance and defiance during the Holocaust.

Leonard Berney was one of the first soldiers to enter the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, which was liberated by the British Army on 15th April 1945.  Here he gives his personal account of the liberation and the British Army’s attempts to save the lives of the thousands of prisoners.

Gena Turgel was born Gena Goldfinger in 1923 in Krakow, Poland. As a Jew she was interned in Krakow Ghetto before being sent first to the Plaszow Concentration Camp and then the concentration and death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. From here she was forcibly transported to Bergen-Belsen, which was liberated by the British Army on 15th April 1945. In this blog, to mark the 68th anniversary of this event, Gena gives her personal account of the liberation.