In Autumn 2022, Holocaust Education Trust Ireland will be launching the Professional Certificate in Holocaust Education, awarded by University College Dublin. The certificate is aimed at teachers and educators providing in depth tuition on the historical significance and contemporary resonance of the Holocaust. The programme provides participants with information, tools and skills to address this […]
Holocaust Education Ireland is delighted to announce the launch of The Crocus Project 2022/23! The Crocus Project is an Irish initiative. Holocaust Education Ireland provides yellow crocus bulbs for pupils aged 10 and older to plant in memory of the children who perished during the Holocaust. The crocuses bloom around Holocaust Remembrance Day (27th January). […]
Herbert Zipper, a world-renowned conductor, composer and pioneer of the community arts movement in the United States, grew up in a Vienna of extremes: From his birth in 1904 until he fled in 1939, the Austrian capital transformed from the heights of science and culture to the depths of economic depression and the onslaught of […]
Nearly 80 years ago, George Berci and Frank Schatz crossed paths during their time as members of the Hungarian Resistance during the Second World War. This week, they were reunited for the first time. Both Berci and Schatz escaped Nazi labour camps and shortly thereafter joined the Hungarian anti-Nazi underground network in Budapest. After the […]
Holocaust Education Trust Ireland, in association with Dublin City Council, will unveil six Stolpersteine in memory of six Irish victims of the Holocaust. The below Stolpersteine will be embedded on 1 June 2022 at St. Catherine’s School, Donore Avenue, Dublin 8 by Gunter Demnig, the creator of the Stolpersteine memorial.
Holocaust Education Trust Ireland is proud to announce the winners of the 2022 edition of the Mary Elmes Prize in Holocaust Studies. Open to TY students, the Prize saw a record number of entries this year as part of a 20% year-on-year increase. We would like to thank all the students who submitted their work […]
Holocaust Education Trust Ireland, in association with Dublin City Council, is proud to take part in the upcoming unveiling of six Stolpersteine (stumble stones) in memory of six Irish victims of the Holocaust: Ettie Steinberg Gluck, her husband Wojteck, and their baby son Leon, along with Isaac Shishi, Ephraim Saks and his sister, Jeanne (Lena) […]
On 15 April 1945, British troops liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. First used as a concentration camp from 1943, Bergen-Belsen interned over 60,000 people by the day of liberation. The liberation of Bergen-Belsen is central to Ireland’s connection with the Holocaust. Many child survivors of the camp, often supported by the Irish Red Cross doctor […]
Holocaust Education Trust Ireland was greatly saddened to learn of the death of Vera Gissing. Her story inspired hundreds of people learning about the Holocaust. We extend our deepest sympathy to Vera’s family. Rescued by ‘Britain’s Schindler’. Gissing escaped Czechoslovakia with sister Eva three months after Nazi occupation. Read about Vera’s life here.
Wednesday 27 April, 19.00 | Click here to register Holocaust Education Trust Ireland, in association with the SS St Louis Legacy Project, is proud to present an evening with survivors of the ship’s voyage and Robert Krakow, the director of award-winning documentary film Complicit. The St Louis sailed from Hamburg to Miami via Cuba on […]