The Holocaust Educational Trust is pleased to invite applications for our Teacher Study Visit to Łódź, which will take place in October 2025.
Dates
Saturday 25 October to Tuesday 28 October 2025.
Application deadline: Thursday 11 September 2025.
Programme overview
Our Teacher Study Visits are advanced site-based training courses which develop teachers’ knowledge of the richness and diversity of pre-war Jewish life and on the complexity of the history of the Holocaust.
Łódź, an industrial city whose textile industry once saw it named the ‘Polish Manchester’, was home to Poland’s second largest Jewish community on the eve of the Second World War. In the February 1940, the Jewish population was forced into what would prove to be the longest lasting and most controversial of all of the ghettos established by the Nazis. Our visit will explore pre-war and wartime sites around the city, and will include a visit to Chełmno extermination camp, established in December 1941 following plans to deport German Jews to the Łódź ghetto.
On-site sessions, delivered by the Trust’s expert team, will be academically rigorous and interactive, incorporating a wide range of stimuli to discuss and critically evaluate the complex history of the Holocaust.
Feedback from previous Teacher Study Visits:
"I really enjoyed the course. I learned so much. It gave me a lot of ideas for how to approach teaching the Holocaust differently"
"My subject knowledge and confidence in understanding the complexity of the Holocaust have been phenomenally improved by taking part in this course"
"Thank you very much for the opportunity. It has been a memorable experience and I would recommend it highly to others"
Who Should Apply?
Applications are invited from primary and secondary teachers and trainees of any subject area who are currently in post across the UK. Participants are required to be available for the entirety of the course. We welcome applications from teachers engaged in the Vision Schools Scotland programme.
The Holocaust Educational Trust offers a programme of teacher training courses which are intended support teachers in career-long professional learning. The programme begins with our foundational Exploring the Holocaust: UK Residential Course. On completion of our Exploring the Holocaust: UK Residential Course, we encourage participants to join one of our advanced training courses including Teacher Study Visits and our most advanced programme at Yad Vashem.
We can only accept 25 teachers on this programme. When allocating places on our advanced training courses, priority is given to those who have completed our Exploring the Holocaust: UK Residential Course.
On completion of the programme, participants are expected to take knowledge obtained during the course back to their classrooms or utilise the principles of site pedagogy to organise visits for their students. Participants who have previously attended a Teacher Study Visit will be asked to present to their department on the importance of site-based learning and encouraged to organise a free CPD/CLPL workshop with the Holocaust Educational Trust for their department/faculty/school and/or MAT.
In order to report back to our funders on the impact of the programme, you will be asked in the application form about the impact you envisage the programme having on your own teaching, or on the teaching of the Holocaust within your department and your wider school community. Following the course, participants will be asked to write a short (≈1000 word) statement reflecting on the impact of the programme, these will be used to write a report examining the efficacy of the project.
How much does it cost?
The course is free to attend. The Trust will provide meals and accommodation for the duration of the course. Participants are asked to cover the costs of their own travel to Poland, though the Trust can write a letter to their headteacher, requesting that these be covered by their school’s CPD budget.
How to Apply
Please click here to complete our online application form.
Application deadline: Thursday 11 September 2025.