Schools needed for our Impact study We are conducting research to look at the impact of Holocaust education and are seeking control schools to participate. That is, schools whose teachers have not attended the UCL (IOE) Centre for Holocaust Education CPD programmes. The research would involve students in Key Stage 3 completing two surveys: one […]
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Nazi Concentration Camps is an important new internet resource in the field of Holocaust studies, following on from Professor Nikolaus Wachsmann’s ground-breaking book KL: a History of the Nazi Concentration Camps. These workshops are a unique opportunity to work Professor Wachsmann and Tom Haward of UCL Centre for Holocaust Education, to gain an insights into […]
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Torpoint Community College are currently working with us as a UCL Beacon School: our first partner in this project to be based in Cornwall. Charlotte Lane, Lead Teacher in the college describes the beneficial effect on students, and across the curriculum: “Since being awarded our UCL Beacon School in Holocaust Education status last year, we […]
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The Centre has developed hugely beneficial relationships with partnership schools through its Beacon Schools programme. Our Beacon Schools worked this year to create a diverse and innovative range of commemorative activities for Holocaust Memorial Day around the theme of ‘how can life go on?‘ Read on for UCL Beacon Schools’ responses to Holocaust Memorial Day […]
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This year Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) fell on 27 January – 72 years after the liberation of Auschwitz. To mark this important anniversary UCL’s Centre for Holocaust Education has hosted a Round Table Discussion between its staff and Holocaust survivors Ben Helfgott and Mala Tribich. We were also joined by the leading Holocaust historian Professor Yehuda Bauer […]
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We are thrilled that Dr Nicola Wetherall has been awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours 2017. Dr Wetherall is a key member of the Centre for Holocaust Education and also works part-time at the Royal Wootton Bassett Academy (RWBA) in Wiltshire. Her MBE recognises her services to Holocaust Education, Genocide Prevention and Human […]
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@UCL_Holocaust: RT: Inspired work by Y9 - Tree of Life - 'Shows the diversity of the communities pre-war...their light will never go ou… https://t.co/EIPEFoR0dB
@UCL_Holocaust: RT: @RWBAHolocaust @UCL_Holocaust Congratulations, well deserved, will follow up in coming days to acknowledge in the paper.
@UCL_Holocaust: RT: @RWBAHolocaust @UCL_Holocaust Mazal Tov. Great news and hopefully are paths will cross soon.