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- February 25th, 2011
Holocaust education
- nickmorgan
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The Scottish Government has announced that it will provide funding for another year for Scottish school students to participate in the ‘Lessons from Auschwitz’ project conceived and managed by the Holocaust Education Trust. This project has already enabled hundreds of senior pupils to experience a visit to the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp and state museum in Poland, combined with preparatory sessions such as hearing the testimony of a Holocaust survivor. On their return the students commit to some peer education action in which they share their experience with school or community audiences as Student ambassadors. One recent example of such dissemination work is a short video made by students from St.Andrew’s and St.Bride’s High School in South Lanarkshire entitled ‘Auschwitz - a journey’, available on YouTube to a wider audience.
HET held an event in Edinburgh this week to celebrate the work of the Student ambassadors. The evening included a performance of a scene from a play written about Scottish missionary and Holocaust victim Jane Haining. Titled ‘A Promised Land’, theatre company Theatre Objectiv toured its production in Scotland last year.
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