- January 14th, 2010
Holocaust Education
- nickmorgan
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It’s now just two weeks until Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January, when nations all over the world will remember the genocides of the modern world and promote tolerance. The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust website carries up-to-date news of events and many resources for teachers. Many schools and local authorities in Scotland will be holding some kind of event in commemoration, such as school assemblies and meetings with Holocaust survivors.
Some school events will be led by pupils who have benefitted from the ‘Lessons from Auschwitz’ programme developed by the Holocaust Education Trust.
Linda Hooper, the Principal of Whitwell Middle School in Tennessee and originator of the Paperclips project, is visiting Scotland and will talk with Scottish teachers and pupils in Glasgow and Renfrewshire about her experience with Holocaust Education.
This year is the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army in 1945. The recent theft of the infamous ‘Arbeit macht frei’ sign from the main camp gates caused initial worries about neo-Nazi activity but the rapid arrests by the Polish police suggest that the theft was for criminal reasons of profit rather than politically motivated.
This week saw the death of Miep Gies, the last link with the hiding of Anne Frank’s family in Amsterdam. Miep concealed the diary after the family’s arrest in 1944, and handed it over to Anne’s father after the war – making its publication possible and creating a resource for Holocaust Education in schools worldwide.
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