Join our teaching team! 1 x Full Time post and 1 x Part Time 0.6 (29.2 hpw). Both posts are available immediately, or from or 1 September 2019 and are funded for one year initially. Closing Date 16 May 2019 We are seeking two highly skilled, experienced members of staff to join the existing teaching team and to help deliver the targets set […]

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Today, January 24th, UCL Centre for Holocaust Education colleagues joined together to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD). The opening welcome by the Centre’s Ruth-Anne Lenga set the tone: ‘UCL’s Centre for Holocaust Education has been operating since 2008 and with 15 members of staff dedicated to helping teachers across the country improve the quality of Holocaust education in their schools, […]

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As we approach Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January, the Centre encourages teacher colleagues, friends and partners to take some time to reflect on the overarching theme of this year’s commemorations: ‘Torn from Home’. To this end, we are delighted to share a selection of writings which have been authored to mark Holocaust Memorial Day […]

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Ruth-Anne Lenga, Head of Academic Programmes at the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education, spent many years working with survivor Leon Greenman in Holocaust Education and closely assisted him in his determination to lead an independent life until his death at the age of 97. To mark this year Holocaust Memorial Day, Ruth-Anne describes the desperate […]

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Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration and education: Royal Wootton Bassett DNA , School Leadership and ‘The  Bassett Way’ The Wiltshire market town of Wootton Bassett is no stranger to remembrance and commemoration. Now, ‘Royal’ Wootton Bassett, paying our respects, pausing to remember, to learn and show solidarity for those who grieve or suffer is perhaps what […]

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‘…if my parents had not been ‘torn from home, I wouldn’t exist!’ – survivor, Eva Clarke It’s such an honour for me (and indirectly for my mother) to have been invited to contribute to the Centre for Holocaust Education’s Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations. Let me start by reflecting on why I think we should remember: […]

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Until I left Prague for the UK on the kindertransport in June 1939, I lived in Prague with my parents. The Germans occupied Prague in March 1939. My father, who was Jewish, left immediately for the UK. In June, my mother, having been refused permission to leave, put me on a kindertransport train with a […]

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