Holocaust Educational Trust – Podcast Series
Summary: A series of interviews and lectures from the Holocaust Educational Trust. The Trust works with schools, colleges and communities across the UK to educate about the Holocaust and its contemporary relevance. This podcast series is just one of the ways that we promote education which helps to combat antisemitism, racism and prejudice in our society today and ensures the Holocaust has a permanent place in Britain’s collective memory.
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Exploring the Holocaust is a free, comprehensive and flexible cross-curricular scheme of work produced by the Holocaust Educational Trust for use at Key Stage 3 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and at S2 in Scotland, although it can be adapted for teaching of older age groups. Exploring the Holocaust is built around 15 core lessons in History, Religious Education (or Philosophy where appropriate), and Citizenship or PSHE. It is also recommended that English be incorporated: a guide to teaching the Holocaust in English can be found below, where teachers will also find further resources which can be added to the scheme of work and guidance on incorporating Drama and Art. Download the Exploring the Holocaust teachers' guide
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In the first of our weekly 70 Voices podcasts, the Trust’s Head of Education Alex Maws and Education Officer Martin Winstone discuss the thinking behind the 70 Voices project and the questions of what the Holocaust was and who its victims were.
In this podcast, the Rt Hon David Miliband MP and Daniel Finkelstein, Executive Editor of The Times, discuss their personal connections to the Holocaust.
Stephen Smith is Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education. In this episode of the podcast, we bring you his keynote adress from November 2011 at the International Conference about the Holocaust and Other Genocides in the Hague.
Sir Ian Kershaw is regarded as one of the world's leading experts on Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. In this episode of the podcast, we bring you his speech from the Holocaust Educational Trust's Lord Merlyn-Rees Public Lecture on the topic of Nazi decision making during the Holocaust.
Lawrence Siegel is a composer whose oratorio "Kaddish" sets the words of actual Holocaust survivors to music. In this episode of the podcast, he describes his approach to creating a musical response to the Holocaust and shares several pieces of music from "Kaddish".
Known as the "Last Nazi Hunter" Efraim Zuroff is the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center office in Jerusalem. His book Operation: Last Chance documents his ongoing efforts to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. In this episode of the podcast series, Dr. Zuroff shares his thoughts on why we must continue to pursue such cases.
Frank Bialystok is a professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Toronto and a founder of the Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation. He was born in Poland in 1946. Today he is a leading scholar on Polish Jewish History. In this episode of our podcast series, he discusses modern Polish-Jewish relations.
Thomas Buergenthal is a Holocaust survivor who went on to serve for 10 years as a Judge on the International Court of Justice at the Hague. His memoir A Lucky Child was published in 2009. This episode of the podcast series features a recording Professor Buergenthal speaking at the Holocaust Educational Trust's 2011 Annual Appeal Dinner.
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.
Nick Robinson is the BBC Political Editor. In this episode of the podcast, recorded at the Holocaust Educational Trust's 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".
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.
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.
