Statement from Holocaust Education Trust Ireland: As New Zealand prepares to bury it’s dead, HETI wishes to express its solidarity with those who have lost loved ones or who are suffering injury. The lessons of the Holocaust should teach us that evil can triumph at any time or in any place. Sadly it’s brutal effects respect […]
“While the Nazis viewed all Jewish people as unworthy of life and targeted them for death “along the stations towards extinction… each gender lived its own journey.” – Mary Felsteiner International Women’s Day will fall on Friday 08 March 2019. While the experiences of women and men during the Holocaust were similar in many ways, […]
Holocaust Education Trust Ireland in association with Anne Frank House Amsterdam A training day for a new online teaching resource to challenge racism and discrimination Date: Saturday 23 March 2019 Venue: Radisson Blu Hotel, Northgate Street, Athlone, Co. Westmeath Time: 09.00-17.00 Fee: €55 (includes lunch and coffee breaks) Young people in Europe are […]
Date: 23 – 26 April 2019 Fee: €695 (inclusive of flights, hotels, transfer and tours) How to apply: For an application form please see bottom of page Study Visit to Berlin, Germany, the country where National Socialism originated and became the seat of Nazi power, 1933-1945. The programme includes a walking tour of Jewish […]
Continuous Professional Development The Holocaust can be a daunting subject to tackle in the classroom. Our intensive three day Teaching the Holocaust programme aims to address this complex subject and illustrates how to teach it in Irish classrooms. Lectures, workshops, lesson plans, resources and methodologies are shared by international Holocaust educators and scholars. Event: Three-day summer […]
Holocaust Education Trust Ireland in association with the History Teachers Association of Ireland The Mary Elmes Prize in Holocaust Studies for Transition Year students, launching September 2019 The prize will bear the name of Mary Elmes, an Irish woman who saved hundreds of children during the Holocaust. In 2013, Mary was awarded Righteous Among […]
HETI Director Heino Schönfeld spoke with Dublin South FM’s Martin O’Connor about the National Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration held in the Round Room at the Mansion House Sunday 27 January 2019, and the role of HETI in Holocaust education.
The national Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration, organised under the auspices of Holocaust Education Trust Ireland, took place in Dublin on Sunday 27 January in the Round Room at Mansion House to a capacity audience of 700 people. President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins gave the keynote address. The Tanaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and […]
Professor Nikolaus Wachsmann Tuesday 12 February 19:30 Burke Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin Professor Nikolaus Wachsmann teaches modern European History at Birkbeck College (University of London). He has written widely on Nazi terror, most recently KL: A history of the Nazi concentration camps (Little Brown, 2015), winner of the Wolfson Prize, the Mark Lynton […]
The Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration cherishes the memory of all who perished in the Holocaust. It recalls six million Jewish men, women and children and millions of others who were persecuted and murdered by the Nazis because of their ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, political affiliations or their religious beliefs. The ceremony includes readings, survivors’ recollections, […]